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St. Serapion
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Bishop of Antioch (190-211). Known principally through his theological writings. Of these Eusebius (Church History V.19) mentions a private letter addressed to Caricus and Pontius against the Montanist heresy; a treatise addressed to a certain Domninus, who in time of persecution abandoned Christianity for the error of “Jewish will-worship” (Church History VI.12); a work on the Docetic Gospel attributed to St. Peter, in which the Christian community of Rhossus in Syria is warned of the erroneous character of this Gospel. These were the only works of Serapion with which Eusebius was acquainted, but he says it is probable that others were extant in his time. He gives two short extracts from the first and third.
Sources
JEROME, Illustrious Men 31; SOCRATES, Church History III.7; ROUTH, Reliquiae sacrae, 447-62; HARNACK, Chronologie, II, 132; Acta SS., XIII Oct., 248-52.
Source Record
- Author
- Healy, Patrick
- Publication
- The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1912.
- Nihil Obstat
- Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., Censor.
- Imprimatur
- Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.