ABSTRACT
The church in Gaul distanced itself very early from the Homoians, especially because of the works and writings of Hilary of Poitiers. At a synod in the year 358 the Gallic bishops had already rejected the first theological draft of the Homoians of Sirmium in 357. At another synod which took place in Paris at the beginning of 361 after Julian had been proclaimed Augustus in Gaul in February 360 they dissociated themselves further from the decisions of the Homoian double synod in Rimini and Seleucia in 359 by defending the Nicene keyword same nature/homousios and tried to contact other critics of the Homoians in the east. Since that point Christianity in Gaul was considered Nicene. Only because of the settlement of Visigoths and Burgundians in Gallic provinces was Homoian-Arian Christianity encountered and dealt with in the area again. On December 31, 406 a large group of Vandals, Suebi and Alans crossed the Rhine near Mainz and reached northern Gaul.
