ABSTRACT
Bishop of Mursa in Pannonia. Valens and his fellow Balkan bishop Ursacius of Singidunum (Belgrade) led the cause of Arianism and the religious policy of emperor Constantius II. The Roman provinces of Illyricum and Pannonia were the center of Arianism in the western half of the empire. Valens achieved the episcopacy early in life and strongly, if inconsistently, supported Constantius's anti- Nicene and anti-Athanasian efforts in the west, following the death of Constantine's other son and ruler in the west, the pro-Nicene Cons tans.
