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And the first attempts at conversion were midly successful at best, as most germanic kings and chief, like the gothic king Athanaric, saw these preachers as roman agitators and spies sent to bring discord among their peoples. Appointed bishop of the Goths by Eusebius of Nicomedia in 348 AD, Ulfila was quickly expelled from the gothic lands by Athanaric after managing to convert some of his people. He then oversaw the translation of the Bible from greek to gothic, which would serve later missionaries.
Some of them continued to live among the germanic peoples as slaves and gave birth to a new generation of christians speaking native languages, and some of these would take the role of evangelizer.
For example, Ulfila (circa 311 - 383), missionary and first arian bishop among the Goths, was born to cappadocian greek parents of christian beliefs taken as captives during a gothic raid at an unknown date. Tho a arian christian himself, and well versed greek and latin, Ulfila was raised as a Goth and learned about his people, their customs and their language.