Flavius Salia

Flavius Salia (fl. 4th century) was a Roman military officer who was appointed consul in AD 348.

Biography

Salia was of Germanic descent and a devout Christian. He rose through the military ranks to become the Magister equitum under the emperor Constans from AD 344 to 348. Constans dispatched him after the Council of Sardica, along with two bishops, Vincentius of Capua and Euphrates of Cologne, to the court of his brother, Constantius II at Antioch, with a letter from Constans demanding that Constantius restore the Patriarch of Alexandria Athanasius to his see.^[1]

Then in AD 348, Salia was made consul posterior alongside Flavius Philippus.^[2]

Sources

Martindale, J. R.; Jones, A. H. M, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I AD 260-395, Cambridge University Press (1971)

References

↑ Barnes, Timothy David, Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire (2001), pgs. 87-89
↑ Martindale & Jones, pg. 796

Political offices
Preceded by Vulcacius Rufinus II Flavius Eusebius	Consul of the Roman Empire 349 with Flavius Philippus	Succeeded by Ulpius Limenius II Fabius Aconius Catullinus Philomathius

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