Heros was

Bishop of Arles The former French Catholic Archbishopric of Arles had its episcopal see in the city of Arles, in southern France.

from 408 to 412. He was installed as bishop by the usurper

Constantine III Constantine III may refer to: * Constantine III (Western Roman Emperor), self-proclaimed western Roman Emperor 407–411 * Heraclius Constantine, Byzantine Emperor in 641 * Constans II, Byzantine emperor 641–668, sometimes referred to under this ...

, and was deposed by

Constantius III Constantius III was briefly Western Roman emperor of the West in 421. He earned his position as Emperor due to his capability as a general under Honorius, achieving the rank of ''magister militum'' by 411. That same year, he suppressed the r ...

.M. Heinzelmann, "The 'affair' of Hilary of Arles (445) and Gallo-Roman identity in the fifth century", in John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton, ''Fifth-Century Gaul: A crisis of identity?'' (Cambridge: University Press, 1992), p. 244

Prosper of Aquitaine Prosper of Aquitaine ( la, Prosper Aquitanus; – AD), a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, was the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle. Life Prosper was a native of Aquitaine, and may have been educated at ...

describes him in his ''Chronicle'' as ''"vir sanctus, et beati Martini discipulus"''. He was installed as bishop in the face of local opposition. Heros lost his see in the reprisals which followed the defeat and execution of Constantine III, and was replaced by Patroclus of Arles. Along with Lazarus, who had also been deposed as bishop of

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label=Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

by Constantius, he went into exile in

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. In 415 both Heros and Lazarus wrote a letter to the

Council of Diospolis Synod of Diospolis was a 415 synod in Diospolis (now Lod, Israel) in which Pelagius was accused of heresy by the exiled Gallic bishops Heros of Arles and Lazarus of Aix, who were not present. It was summoned by Eulogius, bishop of Caesarea and in ...

condemning

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; they wrote a second letter together to the Council of Carthage (416).Mathisen, ''Ecclesiastical Factionalism'', p. 37

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