Basilius
3. Of CILICIA (ὁ Κίλιξ), was the author of a history of the Church, of which Photius gives a short account (Cod. 42), a work against John of Scythopolis (Phot. Bibl. 107), and one against Archelaus, bishop of Colonia in Armenia. (Suidas, s. v.) He lived under the emperor Anastasius, was presbyter at Antioch about 497 A. D., and afterwards bishop of Irenopolis in Cilicia.
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