Serapion of Thmuis
Also: Sarapion, Serapion Scholasticus
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died perhaps between 360 and 370; the place is not known.
A monk and friend of Antony who became bishop of Thmuis in the Nile delta and a chief ally of Athanasius.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 339 to 360Thmuis (now Tell Timai, Egypt)bishopyears probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 0 works can be read here.
- Sacramentary (Bishop Sarapion's Prayer-Book) probably this authorThirty prayers for the eucharist, baptism, ordination and burial; two carry the name of Serapion.not yet on the site
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapion_of_Thmuis gives 300 with no source; no ancient source gives the year
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapion_of_Thmuis: not known
- Died not sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapion_of_Thmuis (about 358 to 360); J. Wordsworth, Bishop Sarapion's Prayer-Book (1899): said to have been alive later
He was alive in 356, when Antony left him a cloak. - Place of death not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapion_of_Thmuis: not known; he was sent into exile about 359
- Thmuis, years probable
- J. Wordsworth (1899), introduction: made bishop between 337 and 339; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapion_of_Thmuis
- Thmuis, place sure
- Athanasius, Letter to Serapion; Jerome, On Illustrious Men 99; site: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727249