Agrestius (fl. 433–41) was the

bishop of Lugo __NOTOC__ The Catholic Diocese of Lugo is one of the five Roman Catholic sees within Galicia, in north-western Spain, and one of the four suffragans in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela.

in the Roman province of Gallaecia. He attended the Council of Orange in the year 441. He is usually identified with the author of the ''Versus Agresti episcopi de fide ad Avitum episcopum'', a poem and letter addressed to

Avitus Eparchius Avitus (c. 390 – 457) was Roman emperor of the West from July 455 to October 456. He was a senator of Gallic extraction and a high-ranking officer both in the civil and military administration, as well as Bishop of Piacenza. He o ...

, then prefect of Gaul. The chronicler

Hydatius Hydatius, also spelled Idacius (c. 400 – c. 469) was a late Western Roman writer and clergyman. The bishop of Aquae Flaviae in the Roman province of Gallaecia (almost certainly the modern Chaves, Portugal, in the modern district of Vila Real), h ...

, in his account of 433, suggests that Agrestius had

Priscillianist Priscillianism was a Christian sect developed in the Iberian Peninsula under the Roman Empire in the 4th century by Priscillian. It is derived from the Gnostic doctrines taught by Marcus, an Egyptian from Memphis. Priscillianism was later consi ...

leanings.

External links

Agrestius of Lugo, Eparchius Avitus, and a Curious Fifth-Century Statement of Faith - Journal of Early Christian Studies

References

* Consello da Cultura Galega (ed.), ''Documentos da Catedral de Lugo'', (Santiago de Compostela, 1998) 5th-century Galician bishops 5th-century Latin writers 5th-century Roman poets {{Galicia-bio-stub