George was the bishop of Laodicea in Syria from 335 until his deposition in 347. He took part in the Trinitarian controversies of the fourth century. Initially an ardent admirer of Arius and an associate of Eusebius of Nicomedia, he subsequently became a semi-Arian, but appears ultimately to have united with the Anomoeans—whose uncompromising opponent he had once been—and to have died professing their tenets.