All that survives of the epistolary corpus of Apollinarius of Laodicea (ca. 315–392) are four intact letters and fragments of four others.1 What is probably the earliest Christological statement we have from Apollinarius is found in his Letter to Emperor Jovian, also called The Profession of Faith to Emperor Jovian, a letter to the new (pro-Nicene) emperor Jovian, who ascended to the throne in June 363 and ruled until his death in February 364. This letter might simply be an introductory statement of faith to a new emperor, which other bishops generally saw as unavoidable formalities to be completed without making waves. Indeed, Athanasius’s letter to Jovian (Ep. 56) simply repeated the Nicene Creed with little interpolation or interpretation. However, the fact that Apollinarius took the exercise as an opportunity to submit his Christological thought for imperial consideration might suggest a different context, perhaps that he was offering the new emperor a way forward in the efforts to reconcile the Christian factions in Antioch (Eustathians, Meletians, “Arians” of various stripes) by highlighting his own position.