Of Cappadocian ancestry, Wulfila was entirely one with the Goths (among whom he had been born) in both language and sympathy. Most of his early life was spent in Constantinople. He was ordained a bishop (c. 341) by the Arian Eusebius of Nicomedia (then bishop of Constantinople). He returned soon afterward to his people to work as a missionary, first beyond the Imperial boundaries and then among the Goths who had settled in Moesia II.