Ovinius Gallicanus

Ovinius Gallicanus (floruit 293-317) was a politician of the Roman Empire, probably the first Christian Roman consul.

Life

Gallicanus was a senator and probably a Christian.

In 293/300 he was curator Teanum Sicidinum.

On August 4, 316 he is attested as praefectus urbi of Rome, as successor to Gaius Vettius Cossinius Rufinus, and kept the office at least until May 15, 317, the year he was also consul, to be succeeded by Septimius Bassus.

He might be identified with the Gallicanus who gave some lands to the church of Saints Peter, Paul and John the Baptist in Ostia.

Bibliography

• "Ovinius Gallicanus 3", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0521072336, p. 383.
• Abhandlungen der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, philologisch-historische Klasse, Akademie-Verlag, 1850, p. 39.
• Moncur, David, and Peter J. Heather (eds.), Politics, Philosophy, and Empire in the Fourth Century: Select Orations of Themistius, Liverpool University Press, 2001, ISBN 0853231060, p. 58.
• Hedrick, Charles W., History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity, University of Texas Press, 2000, ISBN 0292731213, p. 55.