 Hilary's urgent and repeated requests for public debates with his opponents, especially with Ursacius and Valens, proved at last so inconvenient that he was sent back to his diocese, which he appears to have reached about 361, within a very short time of the accession of Emperor Julian.On returning to his diocese in 361, Hilary spent most of the first two or three years trying to persuade the local clergy that the "homoion" confession was merely a cover for traditional Arian subordinationism.Thus, a number of synods in Gaul condemned the creed promulgated at Council of Ariminium (359).