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Definition of Bishop wulfila

1. Noun. A Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382).

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Literary usage of Bishop wulfila

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sweden by Victor Alfred Nilsson (1899)
"In the collection was also the Gothic Bible translation of bishop wulfila in the only copy extant. Liberal with his silver, Count de la Gardie gave to the ..."

2. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"... the Arian bishop Wulfila or Ulfilas : to him we (3"-38i or owe the oldest monument of Germanic literature, the Gothic thl Gothic translation of the ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"of the Bible which is believed ю have bcen'made by the Arian bishop Wulfila or Ulfilas (d. 383) for the Goths who dwelt on the lower Danube. ..."

4. The Church in Germany by Sabine Baring-Gould (1891)
"... they were persecuted, and had in consequence migrated with their bishop wulfila. The Ostro-Goths, after the defeat of Attila at Chalons (AD 451), ..."

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