Eusebius of Emesa

Eusebius of Emesa (born c. 300, Edessa, Macedonia [now in Greece]—died c. 359, Antioch, Syria [now Antakya, Tur.]) was a bishop of Emesa, one of the chief doctrinal writers on Semi-Arianism, a modified Arianism that held that Christ was “like” God the Father but not of one substance. A friend of the Roman emperor Constantius II, whom he often accompanied on expeditions against the Persians, Eusebius was appointed (c. 339) to the see of Emesa....