He was archdeacon of Carthage, when, in 388, he was promoted to
the archiepiscopal dignity of that see, to which was annexed a
jurisdiction little inferior to that of a patriarch over all the
metropolitans of the different provinces of Africa. He cultivated a
strict friendship with St. Austin, held several councils against the
Donatists, and was the first that condemned Celestius the Pelagian
in a council held in 412, and Pelagius himself in another council
in 416. He anathematized their heresy before St. Austin entered the
lists against it. St. Aurelius died in 423. He is highly extolled
by St. Fulgentius,[240] and is mentioned in the African Calendar of
the fifth age on the 20th of July. See the Acts of the Councils of
Carthage, Baronius, Baillet, &c.