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Auxentius of Mopsuestia (died 360) was bishop
Bishop

A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
 of Mopsuestia
Mopsuestia

Mopsuestia or Mopsus or Mamistra is an ancient city of Cilicia Campestris on the Pyramus river located approximately 20 km east of present-day Adana in Adana Province, Turkey....
, and is a saint
Saint

A saint in Christianity is a human being who has been called to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations, with some, such as the Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans distinguishing between Saints and saints....
 in the Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian communion in the world with an estimated 225 million members worldwide. It is considered by its adherents to be the Four Marks of the Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles nearly 2000 years ago....
 and Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 churches. His feast day is December 18. Baronius places Auxentius in the Roman martyrology, because of the story told by Philostorgius
Philostorgius

Philostorgius was a so-called Anomoeanism Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries. Very little information about his life is available; he was born in Borissus, Cappadocia to Eulampia and Carterius, and later lived in Constantinople....
 (in Suidas) that he was at one time an officer in the army of Licinius
Licinius

Valerius Licinianus Licinius was Roman emperor from 308 to 324.Of Dacian peasant origin, born in Moesia Superior, Licinius accompanied his close childhood friend, the Emperor Galerius, on the Persian expedition in 297....
, and gave up his commission rather than obey the imperial command to lay a bunch of grapes at the feet of a statue of Bacchus
Dionysus

In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos , is the God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival....
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Auxentius of Mopsuestia (died 360) was bishop
Bishop

A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
 of Mopsuestia
Mopsuestia

Mopsuestia or Mopsus or Mamistra is an ancient city of Cilicia Campestris on the Pyramus river located approximately 20 km east of present-day Adana in Adana Province, Turkey....
, and is a saint
Saint

A saint in Christianity is a human being who has been called to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations, with some, such as the Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans distinguishing between Saints and saints....
 in the Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian communion in the world with an estimated 225 million members worldwide. It is considered by its adherents to be the Four Marks of the Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles nearly 2000 years ago....
 and Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
 churches. His feast day is December 18. Baronius places Auxentius in the Roman martyrology, because of the story told by Philostorgius
Philostorgius

Philostorgius was a so-called Anomoeanism Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries. Very little information about his life is available; he was born in Borissus, Cappadocia to Eulampia and Carterius, and later lived in Constantinople....
 (in Suidas) that he was at one time an officer in the army of Licinius
Licinius

Valerius Licinianus Licinius was Roman emperor from 308 to 324.Of Dacian peasant origin, born in Moesia Superior, Licinius accompanied his close childhood friend, the Emperor Galerius, on the Persian expedition in 297....
, and gave up his commission rather than obey the imperial command to lay a bunch of grapes at the feet of a statue of Bacchus
Dionysus

In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos , is the God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival....
. Tillemont is inclined to believe that Auxentius was an Arian
Arianism

Arianism is the theological teaching of Arius , a Christian priest, who was first ruled a heresy at the First Council of Nicea, later exonerated and then pronounced a heretic again after his death....
; his patronage of the heretic Aetius
Aetius

Aetius or A?tius may refer to:* Aetius , 1st-century B.C. peripatetic philosopher* A?tius of Antioch, 4th-century Anomean theologian, called "Aetius the Atheist" by his enemies...
, points to this conclusion.

He is not to be confused with Auxentius (d. 374), bishop of Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
, or with Saint Auxentius
Auxentius of Bithynia

Auxentius of Bithynia was a hermit born circa 400 AD in Syria, and died February 14, 473 on Mount Scopas).Auxentius was in the Equestrian of Roman Emperor Theodosius II, but left to become a solitary monk on Mount Oxia near Constantinople....
 (d. 473), a hermit cleared of heresy at the Council of Chalcedon
Council of Chalcedon

The Council of Chalcedon is believed to have been the fourth ecumenical council by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. It was held from 8 October to 1 November 451 at Chalcedon , today the district of Kadik?y on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, incorporated into the city of Istanbul....
 and an Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint.