Editing Goths (section)

===Religion===
{{Further|Gothic paganism|Gothic persecution of Christians|Gothic Christianity}}

[[File:Bischof Ulfilas erklärt den Goten das Evangelium.jpg|thumb|upright|''Ulfilas explains the gospel to the Goths'', 1900]]
Initially practising [[Gothic paganism]], the Goths were gradually converted to [[Arianism]] in the course of the 4th century.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=79–80}} According to [[Basil of Caesarea]], a prisoner named Eutychus taken captive in a raid on Cappadocia in 260 preached the gospel to the Goths and was martyred.{{sfn|Cassia|2019|p=22}} It was only in the 4th century, as a result of missionary activity by the Gothic bishop [[Ulfilas]], whose grandparents were Cappadocians taken captive in the raids of the 250s,{{sfn|Cassia|2019|p=22}} that the Goths were gradually converted.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=79–80}} Ulfilas devised a [[Gothic alphabet]] and translated the [[Gothic Bible]].{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=79–80}}

During the 370s, Goths converting to Christianity were subject to [[Gothic persecution of Christians|persecution]] by the Thervingian king Athanaric, who was a pagan.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=64–72}}

The Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania converted to Catholicism in the late 6th&nbsp;century.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=371}}

The Ostrogoths (and their remnants, the Crimean Goths) were closely connected to the [[Patriarchate of Constantinople]] from the 5th century, and became fully incorporated under the [[Metropolitanate of Gothia]] from the 9th century.{{sfn|Vasiliev|1936|pp=117–35}}