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Basilius, Friend of Chrysostom
Wace's Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
Basilius , the intimate friend of Chrysostom, with whom he resolved on the adoption of an ascetic life, and whose consecration to the episcopate he secured by a strange deception. His see is unknown, but was probably near Antioch.
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Wace, Henry. Entry for 'Basilius, Friend of Chrysostom'. A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hwd/b/basilius-friend-of-chrysostom.html. 1911.