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	Ulfilas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language.
		Fragments have survived and are known as the Codex Argenteus.
		Ulfilas converted many among the Visigoths and Ostrogoths to Arian Christianity, which when they reached the western Mediterranean set them apart from their overwhelmingly Catholic neighbors and subjects.
	www.theezine.net /u/ulfilas.html (126 words)

	Ulfilas - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Representation of Ulfilas surrounded by the Gothic alphabet
		Ulfilas was ordained a bishop by Eusebius of Nicomedia and returned to his people to work as a missionary.
		Ulfilas converted many among the Visigoths and Ostrogoths, preaching an Arian Christianity, which when they reached the western Mediterranean, set them apart from their overwhelmingly Catholic neighbors and subjects.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Wulfila (246 words)

	“Little Wolf” & the Gothic Bible
		In 341 Ulfilas was appointed “bishop of the Goths” by the church heirarchy in Constantinople.
		Returning to Dacia, Ulfilas preached among the Goths for seven years, until persecution from the Gothic leader Athanaric became so severe that Ulfilas appealed to the Roman emperor to allow him and a large group of converts to settle south of the Danube in the Roman territory of Moesia.
		Ulfilas was a product of his times, operating within the unscriptural church organization and heirarchy which had developed in those years.
	kmpope.home.att.net /LittleWolf.html (799 words)

	ULFILAS (c. 311-383) - Online Information article about ULFILAS (c. 311-383) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ulfilas may therefore have been a convert to Christianity when he reached Constantinople.
		Ulfilas lived longenough to see what the end must be.
		The Arianism of Ulfilas was a fact of pregnant consequence for his people, and indirectly for the empire.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TUM_VAN/ULFILAS_c_311_383_.html (1634 words)

	A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the ...
		Ulfilas (Urphilas in Philostorgius), the apostle of the Goths in the 4th cent.
		Ulfilas, the child of one of these Christian captives, was trained in Christian principles.
		The literary fame of Ulfilas is connected with his Gothic translation of the Bible, the one great monument of that language now extant.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.Ulfilas.html (914 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ulfilas
		Though Ulfilas in speech and sympathies was thoroughly Gothic, he was descended not from Teutonic ancestors, but from Cappadocians captured, in the reigns of Valerian and Gallienus, during the raids in Asia Minor made by the Goths from the north of the Danube.
		As a young man he was sent to that city either as a hostage or an ambassador, and, after occupying for some time the position of lector in the church, he was consecrated bishop in his thirtieth year by the celebrated Arian bishop of Nicomedia, Eusebius.
		Ulfilas was at the Synod of Constantinople in 360 when the sect of Acacius triumphed and issued its compromise creed as a substitute for the formularies of the Orthodox as well as the Arian parties.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15120c.htm (488 words)

	Ulfilas Biography / Biography of Ulfilas Biography Biography
		Ulfilas was probably descended on his mother's side from Christian captives displaced from Cappadocia in Asia Minor in the 3d century.
		Not yet 30, Ulfilas, already a leader of his people, was sent on a mission to Constantine I, the first Christian emperor of Rome, and in the same year was consecrated bishop of the Christian Goths by Eusebius of Nicomedia.
		The Arianism of Ulfilas led to a break between Goths and Romans which was not healed by his compromise with Nicene orthodoxy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ulfilas/index.html (434 words)

	ULFILAS (c. 311-383) - Encyclopedia Britannica - ULFILAS (c. 311-383) - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This ordination of Ulfilas by the chiefs of the semi-Arian party is at once an indication of their determination to extend their influence by active missionary enter-prise, and evidence that Ulfilas was now a declared adherent of the Arian or semi-Arian party.
		Then followed the negotiations with the emperor Valens, the general adhesion of the Visigoths under Frithigern to Arian Christianity, the crossing of the Danube by himself and a host of his followers, and the troubles which culminated in the battle of Adrianople and the death of Valens (378).
		He appears to have joined the Homoean party, which took shape and acquired influence before the council of Constantinople in 36o, where he adhered with the rest of the council to the creed of Ariminum, with the addendum that in future the terms uaderacr s and o(ata should be excluded from Christological definitions.
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	Read about Ulfilas at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Ulfilas and learn about Ulfilas here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Goth or half-Goth who had spent time inside the Byzantine Empire at a time when Arianism was dominant.
		The creed of Ulfilas, as appended to a letter praising him written by his foster-son and pupil the Scythian
		The letter of Auxentius, emphatically denying that Ulfilas was a heretic, was preserved in a copy of
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Ulfilas (316 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ulfilas (Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He was converted to Christianity at Constantinople and was consecrated bishop (341) by the Arian bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia.
		Ulfilas then returned to the Visigoths as a missionary; it was partly as a result of Ulfilas's work that the Goths became and remained Arians for so long in the face of triumphant Catholicism.
		Ulfilas is said to have invented the alphabet that he used.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/U/Ulfilas.html (234 words)

	Ulfilas -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Gothic alphabet, said to have been created by Ulfilas, contained 27 symbols, two of which functioned only as numbers, while the remaining 25 were used as both numbers and letters.
		The shape, numerical value, and ordering of the symbols show clearly that the alphabet was based primarily on that of Greek, though a few symbols seem to have been adapted from the Latin...
		The Gothic alphabet had 27 letters, 19 or 20 of which were derived from Greek uncial script, 5 or 6 modified slightly from Latin, and 2 either borrowed from runic...
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		Auxentius reports that Ulfilas " proved by sermons and treatises that there is a difference between the divinity of the Father and of the Son.
		under the name of Ulfilas, although it is not impossible that fragments may be included among the numerous remnants of Arian (or, rather, homoian) literature that are still extant.
		The fame of Ulfilas is chiefly due, however, to two facts: his creation of a Gothic alphabet from modifications and adaptations of the Greek, Latin, and runic alphabets; and his Gothic translation of the Bible.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc12/htm/old1/0081=57.htm.old (821 words)

	ulfilas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		(Philostorgius) says that at this time Ulfilas led a large body of the Scythians (Goths) from those living across the Ister (the people whom in olden times they called Getae, but now call Goths) to the land of the Romans, driven through piety from their own homes.
		Among these prisoners were the ancestors of Ulfilas; they were Cappadocians by nationality, from a village near the city of Parnassus called Sadagolthina.
		It was this Ulfilas who led the exodus of the pious ones, being the first bishop appointed among them.
	www29.homepage.villanova.edu /christopher.haas/ulfilas.htm (230 words)

	Ulfilas
		Ulfilas is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		The principal manuscripts of his translation are preserved at the University of Upsala, called the Codex Argenteus (Silver Codex), as it is written in silver characters on a purple ground.
		Ulfilas: : Quick links to archives and dictionary related to Mysticism - U - Uz
	www.experiencefestival.com /ulfilas (409 words)

	Ulfilas (ca. 311 - ca 383)
		T.D. Barnes, "The Consecration of Ulfila," Journal of Theological Studies 41.2 (1990): 541-545.
		Hagith Sivan, "Ulfila's Own Conversion," Harvard Theological Review 89.4 (1996): 373-386.
		Edward Arthur Thompson, The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila.
	www.earlychurch.org.uk /ulfilas.php (556 words)

	JAARS Museum of the Alphabet: Ulfilas
		After they had been "Christianized," Ulfilas (311-382), their bishop, saw they needed the Bible in their own tongue, "to speak to their hearts."
		The Visigoths migrated west and were the first to conquer Rome (A.D. Their aim, however, was not so much to destroy but to acquire the benefits of civilization.
		It was largely due to the work of Ulfilas that these plunderers became peacemakers.
	www.jaars.org /museum/alphabet/people/ulfilas.htm (172 words)

	Ulfilas - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Ulfilas [Gothic,=little wolf], c.311-383, Gothic bishop, translator of the Bible into Gothic.
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	Latin Vulgate (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
		It has also proved of primary importance as an early and excellent witness to the sacred text.
		Add to this that "directly or indirectly it is the real parent of all the vernacular versions of Western Europe" except the Gothic of Ulfilas.
		For English-speaking students it possesses peculiar interest as the source of the earlier translations made by the Venerable Bede, and portions of the Old Testament were translated in the 10th century from the Vulgate by Ælfric.
	www.bible-researcher.com /vulgate1.html (4501 words)

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