Sebaste is a common placename, mostly in classical Antiquity, since the word was the Greek equivalent of the Latin Augusta: ancient towns by the name sought to honor Augustus or a later Roman emperor. Classical antiquity is a broad and perhaps misleading term for a long period of European, Middle East and North African history, that begins roughly with the earliest recorded Greek poetry of Homer (7th century BC), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire... Augustus (plural Augusti) is Latin for majestic or venerable. The greek equivalent is sebastos, or a mere grecization (by changing of the ending) augustos. ...
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Sebaste in Lesser Armenia, the place most often meant by the name
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Doubtless the creation of the Municipality of Sebaste in 1964 marked the triumph of Sebastehanons in their quest to be free-to chart the course of their town’s destiny and the future of their children.
Sebaste is a sixth-class municipality deriving most of its income from fishery and agriculture.
Sebaste is located in Northern Antique, about 109 kilometers from San Jose, provincial capital, about 206 kilometers from Iloilo City, and some 69 kilometers from Kalibo, Aklan to the north.
Saint Peter of Sebaste (c 340 - 391) was a bishop.
He belonged to the richly blest family of Basil and Emmelia of Caesarea in Cappadocia, from which also sprang St. Macrina the Younger (q.v.) and the two great Cappadocian doctors, Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa.
About 380-81 he was elevated to the See of Sebaste in Armenia and, without displaying any literary activity, took his stand beside his brothers Basil and Gregory in their fight against the Arian heresy (Theodoret, "H.E.", IV, xxvii).
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