George of Laodicea was a profligate in morals, and an Arian at heart, whose opposition to Acacius and Eudoxius was prompted by self-interest rather than by sincere conviction.  He had been deposed from the priesthood by Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria, both on that ground of false doctrine, and of the open and habitual irregularities of his life.  Athanasius styles him “the most wicked of all the Arians,” reprobated even by his own party for his grossly dissolute conduct Dict. Chr. Biogr..