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Agrestius

bishop of Lugo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4693826 ↗
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Agrestius (fl. 433–441) was the bishop of Lugo in the Roman province of Gallaecia. He attended the Council of Orange in the year 441. He is usually identified with the author of the Versus Agresti episcopi de fide ad Avitum episcopum, a poem and letter addressed to Avitus, then prefect of Gaul. The chronicler Hydatius, in his account of 433, suggests that Agrestius had Priscillianist leanings.

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“Agrestius” enters the record as bishop of Lugo. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Agrestius, bishop and Lugo can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 66-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Agrestius, bishop and Lugo.
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“Agrestius” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Agrestius, bishop and Lugo provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4693826. VIAF identifies the subject as 25395932. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Agrestius” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.