Malchion of Antioch
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Priest and head of a school of rhetoric at Antioch who exposed the teaching of bishop Paul of Samosata at the synod of 268.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 264 to 270Antiochia (now Antakya, Turkey)priestyears probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Against Paul of Samosata (fragments)Pieces of the synod letter against bishop Paul of Samosata and of the debate in which Malchion questioned him.3,195 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- Eusebius, Church History 7.29 gives no birth
- Place of birth not known
- No ancient source
- Died not known
- No ancient source; Jerome, On Illustrious Men 71, says he flourished under Claudius and Aurelian
- Place of death not known
- No ancient source
- Antiochia, years probable
- Eusebius, Church History 7.29.2: priest and head of the sophists' school at Antioch at the time of the synods, 264 to 268/269
- Antiochia, place sure
- Eusebius, Church History 7.29.2