Catechetical Homilies

Written about 388 to 428; the place is not known. The date is disputed or rests on weak evidence.

Sixteen lessons on the creed, the Lord's Prayer, baptism and the Eucharist.

Catechesis · first written in Greek (survives only in Syriac) · a major work

The corpus file also holds his prologue on Acts.

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How we know the date and place

Date written not sure: Either as a priest at Antioch (before 392) or as bishop of Mopsuestia (392 to 428) (Mingana 1932; Bruns 1994)
Place written not known: Antioch or Mopsuestia; scholars do not agree (Bruns, Theodor von Mopsuestia: Katechetische Homilien, 1994)