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Ul⋅fi⋅las

  [uhl-fi-luhs]
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–noun
a.d. c311–c382, Christian bishop to the Goths: translated Bible into the Gothic language.
Also, Ul⋅fi⋅la  [uhl-fi-luh] , Wulfila.
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Ulfilas

Gothic Wulfila Christian bishop and missionary who evangelized the Goths, reputedly created the Gothic alphabet, and wrote the earliest translation of the Bible into a Germanic language. Although his life cannot be reconstructed with certainty, fragments have come from 4th- and 5th-century ecclesiastical historians.

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