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AĂ«rius of Pontus
AĂ«rius of Pontus was a friend and fellow ascetic of Eustathius of Sebaste, who became Bishop of Sebaste (355), and who ordained AĂ«rius and placed him over the hospital or asylum in that city. AĂ«rius fell out with Eustathius, upbraided him for having deserted ascetic practices, and began to preach new doctrines, insisting that there was no sacred character distinguishing bishop or priest from laymen, that the observance of the feast of Easter was a Jewish superstition, and that it was wrong to prescribe fasts or abstinences by law, and useless to pray for the dead.
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