Lazarus (bishop)
The bishop Lazarus officiated at the beginning of the 5th century in Aix-en-Provence .
After Priscillian , Bishop of Ávila , was executed as a heretic in Trier in 385 for his strictly ascetic theology , his views held and spread in Gaul and Spain. One of the most prominent representatives of the "Priscillianists" was Bishop Lazarus, but also other high ecclesiastical dignitaries of the region (first Instantius and Salvanius as well as Hyginus of Cordoba, who were excommunicated in 390 , then Herod of Arles as well as the metropolitans of Marseille , Vienne and Narbonensis II ) joined the teaching. Lazarus and Herod were deposed in 412 on charges of Manichaeism .
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| SURNAME | Lazarus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century |