Fulgentius, St (468–533)

African Father of the early Christian Church (see Father of the Church). He was made bishop of Ruspe, North Africa, in 507 or 508, evidently against his will. For his Disputation with Thrasimund, King of the Vandals (496–523), he was banished 510–23, but was restored 523–32. He then retired to a monastery on the island of Circe. He wrote Latin treatises against the Arians and Pelagians.