Bishop Wulfila n 1: a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382) [syn: {Ulfilas}, {Bishop Ulfilas}, {Ulfila}, {Bishop Ulfila}, {Wulfila}, {Bishop Wulfila}]