Audentius (Bishop of Toledo)

Audentius (latin: "Audentius") was bishop of Toledo (Hispania), according to tradition in the years 385-395 A.D. In the "Catholic Encyclopedia" (1912), the Count of Cedillo places his episcopate around the year 376.

The historian Gennadius of Massilia mentions in "De viris illustribus" c.14 ("ca." 480 AD) that a certain Audentius wrote the book "De fide adversus haereticos", in which he wrote against the Manichaeans, the Sabellians, the Arians, and, with especial energy, against the Photinians.

Its object was to show that the second person in the Trinity is co-eternal with the Father. The book has been lost.

In the book "De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis" (1494), abbot Johannes Trithemius styles this Audentius as "vir in divinis scripturis exercitatum habens ingenium"."

In the "Catholic Encyclopedia" (1912), the Count of Cedillo considers both Audentius to be the same person.

References

* [http://www.architoledo.org/historia/los_arzobispos_de_toledo.htm Archidiócesis de Toledo: Los Arzobispos de Toledo] (in Spanish).
* [http://www.geocities.com/jdcastro_99/ObispadoToledo.htm IBERCRONOX: Obispado y Arzobispado de Toledo] (in Spanish).
* William Smith, "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology", vol. I, p. 418. — Boston, Little, Brown & co., 1870. [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0427.html Text online at The Ancient Library] .
* Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912: [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14755a.htm Toledo] .