In late summer 351 he was in Sirmium, member of the tribunal processing Photinus; the city was under control of the area under control of Emperor Constantius II, while Rome was occupied by usurper Magnentius.
Photinus grew up in Ancyra in Galatia, where he was a student and later a deacon of bishop Marcellus.
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He was the leader of a council at Sirmium in 351, held against Photinus who had been a deacon at Ancyra, and the canons of this synod begin by condemning Arianism, though they do not quite come up to the Nicene standard.