Theophilus of Caesarea
Also: Theophilus of Caesarea in Palestine
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about 190, who led a synod on the date of Easter with Narcissus of Jerusalem.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 189 to 196Caesarea Maritima (now Caesarea, Israel)bishopyears probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Synod Letter on Easter (fragment)A few lines of the letter of the bishops of Palestine on the date of Easter, kept by Eusebius.298 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- Eusebius, Church History 5.22-25 gives no birth date
- Place of birth not known
- Eusebius, Church History 5.22-25
- Died not known
- Not known; he is last heard of at the synod of about 190-195 (Eusebius, Church History 5.23, 5.25)
- Place of death not known
- No source names the place
- Caesarea Maritima, years probable
- Eusebius, Church History 5.22: bishop in the 10th year of Commodus (189/190) and in the time of Victor of Rome
- Caesarea Maritima, place sure
- Eusebius, Church History 5.22 and 5.23.3