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Serapion, St (d. after 360) Reference library
Jonathan Morgan
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...dans l’Euchologe de Sérapion’, Questions liturgiques 80 (1999), 374–83. R. Draguet , ‘Une Lettre de Sérapion de Thmuis aux disciples d’Antoine (a.d. 356) en version syriaque et arménienne’, Muséon 64 (1951), 1–25, incl. text and Lat. tr. Eng. edn of Athanasius’ Epp. to Serapion, with introd. and notes, by C. R. B. Shapland (1951). Eng. tr. M. DelCogliano , A. Radde-Gallwitz , and L. Ayres , Works on the Spirit: Athanasius and Didymus (St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2011). A. Peters , OFM, ‘Het Tractaat van Serapion van Thmuis tegen de...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
..., St ( d. after 360 ), Bp. of Thmuis in the Nile delta from c. 339 . He had been a monk and companion of St Antony . St Athanasius chose him for a difficult mission to the Emp. Constantius and addressed to him a series of letters on the Divinity of the Holy Spirit. Serapion wrote against the Manichees , and a Sacramentary which has come down under his name was probably his compilation. Feast day, 21...
Serapion, St (d. 211) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
..., St ( d. 211 ) Bp of Antioch from 199. Though one of the chief theologians of his age, little is known of him. His writings, of which only a few fragments survive, include a letter to Caricus and Pontius against Montanism , a work addressed to one Domninus who had lapsed during persecution, and a letter withdrawing his earlier permission to the Church of Rhossus to read the ‘ Gospel of St Peter ’, on the ground that he had now discovered it to be docetic . Feast day, 30 Oct. The principal ancient authorities are Eusebius , HE 5.19 and 6.12, and...
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Serapion (2)(of *Antioch (1)) Reference library
G. J. Toomer and Alexander Jones
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
... (2) , ( RE 4) of Antioch ( 1 ) (fl. 1st cent. bc ), wrote on geography (Cic. Att. 2. 6. 1), and said that the sun was 18 times the size of the earth. He has been erroneously identified with an astrologer Serapion of Alexandria, and with a much later Serapion who commented on Ptolemy (4) 's Handy Tables . D. Pingree , The Yavanajātaka of Sphujidhvaja 2 (1978), 440-1; A. Tihon , Le ‘Grand Commentaire’ de Théon 1 (1985), 294 ff. G. J. Toomer / Alexander...
Serapion of Vladimir Reference library
Simon Franklin
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
...allusions, although Serapion does reproach his audience for “not hearkening to Basil and Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom” (no. 1) and some of his historical illustrations are possibly derived from Malalas and Josephus Flavius (nos. 4, 5). ed . Serapion Vladimirskij, russkij propovednik XIII veka , ed. E. Petuchov (St. Petersburg 1888). lit . N.K. Gudzij , Gde i kogda protekala literaturnaja dejatel'nost' Serapiona Vladimirskogo? IzvANSRR.OL 11 (1952) 450–56. R. Bogert , On the Rhetorical Style of Serapion Vladimirskij, in Medieval Russian...
Mara bar Serapion, Letter of Reference library
Ute Possekel
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...bar Serapion, Letter of The Letter is preserved in a single Syriac manuscript. The purported author is among a group from Samosata (in Commagene) being held in exile by the Romans. Mara addresses his young son Serapion and admonishes him to seek wisdom rather than worldly prosperity. He cites Socrates, Pythagoras, and the ‘wise king’ of the Jews as examples. The letter’s historicity and date remain disputed, with estimates ranging from the 70s of the 1st century ad to the 4th century . A setting in the late 2nd or early 3rd century seems most...
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Barry Baldwin
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
... (Σαραπίων), bishop of Thmuis in Lower Egypt (from ca. 339 ) and saint; died after 362 ; feastday 21 Mar. Formerly head of a colony of monks, Serapion was intimate with St. Antony the Great and linked with Athanasios of Alexandria by friendship, patronage, and correspondence. Serapion's mission to Constantinople in 356 as envoy of Athanasios , with the purpose of countering the Arians and conciliating Constantius II , was a clear failure, since Serapion was soon removed from his see and (probably) exiled. His treatise Against the Manichaeans ...
anaphora Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...formularies date from the 3rd and 4th cc. ( Apostolic Tradition , Euchologion of Serapion, Apostolic Constitutions , VIII). The texts presently in use were fixed between the 5th and 8th centuries; some, in the Syriac tradition particularly rich in this field, are of more recent origin. We can distinguish two great types of structure: Antiochene-Cappadocian (characteristic anaphorae: St Basil, St John Chrysostom or of the Apostles), and Egyptian (St Mark or St Cyril), depending on whether the epiclesis and the intercessions take place after or before...
