Epiphanius Of Salamis
St. Epiphanius of Salamis and Epiphanius of Cyprus (c. 315 - 403 ) was a Church Father. He is best known for his defense of the Church and her hunt for heretics during the turbulent period that followed the Council of Nicaea I.. He is a saint of the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church and is celebrated on May 12.
The faith of Epiphanius in his youth is still subject to debate: according to some sources, he was Jewish and Hellenistic, and Christian by others. Became a monk in Egypt , he founded in Judea a monastery which he headed before becoming Bishop of Salamis-Constantia ( Cyprus ) in 365. He was in Rome in 382 with Paulinus of Antioch for a seminar on the Christians of the East, bringing St. Jerome with him.
During a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he accused the bishop John of Origenism. This bishop had ordered Rufinus of Aquileia.
Epiphanes died at sea during a voyage that brought him to Constantinople to Cyprus in 403.
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The city of Salamis in Cyprus was founded around 1100 BC by a citizen of the island of Salamis in the Saronic Gulf. In the early fourth century it was ravaged by an earthquake and rebuilt city is that of Constantia in honor of his restaurant, the emperor Constantine II, shortly before the episcopate of Epiphanius. In 648 the city was destroyed again, this time by the Arabs. Population found in the peninsula of Cyzicus, in the Sea of Marmara, in a place that receives the name of New Justinianopolis in honor of Justinian II. Returned to Cyprus, the Episcopal stood in Nicosia, but he kept until today for its owner the title of Archbishop of New Justinian and All Cyprus.
His works
Clavis Patrum Grcorum 3744-3807
Epiphanius is known for his work heresiological and polemical texts refute its 80 different heresies:
It is also the author of:
- Discourse on spiritual life in Christ
A few other texts have survived in fragments:
- The Treaty of weights and measures;
- The Treaty of twelve gemstones;
- Letters (of which there are few fragments).
He wrote many commentaries of the Holy Scriptures:
- The lives of the prophets;
- The commentary Hexameron;
- Commentary on the Psalms;
- The Physiologist;
- Commentary on the Gospel according to Luke.
He wrote lives of saints:
- The life of Saint Hilarion;
- History of Joseph the Count (in Panarion, ch. 30 11).
He was also awarded liturgical works:
- The Liturgy of Presanctified;
- The anaphora Ethiopian Holy Week;
- Another anaphora.
Bibliography
- Lives of fathers, martyrs and saints of the key - Abbot Godescard - 1829 - pages 433 and following - available on Gallica
External Links
- (En) Life of Saint Epiphanius by John, a disciple
- (Fr) translation of Ancoratus
- (En) Refutation of the award of "Testament" St Epiphanius by Nicephorus of Constantinople
- (In) Epiphanius of Salamis in Catholic Encyclopedia
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