Optatus of Milevis
Also: Optatus Milevitanus, Optatus of Mileve
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died perhaps between 385 and 397; the place is not known.
Bishop of Milevis in Numidia, the first Catholic writer to answer the Donatists at length.
Wrote in Latin.
Places lived
- 364 to 385Milevis (now Mila, Algeria)bishopyears probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Against the DonatistsSeven books against the Donatist bishop Parmenian on how the schism began and on the one church and its baptism.94,304 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optatus: not recorded
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optatus: not recorded; he was an African
- Died not sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optatus (about 387); he added the name of pope Siricius (from December 384) to his book
- Place of death not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optatus: not recorded
- Milevis, years probable
- Jerome, On Illustrious Men 110: he wrote under Valentinian and Valens (364 to 375); the years he was bishop are not recorded
- Milevis, place sure
- Jerome, On Illustrious Men 110; Augustine, On Christian Doctrine 2.40; site: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305109