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St. Epiphanius of Salamis

Entity ID:

epiphanius-of-salamis

Long Name:

St. Epiphanius of Salamis, Cyprus (c. 315-403)

Short Name:

St. Epiphanius of Salamis

Disambiguation String:

Bishop of Salamis

Entity Type:

person

Entity Subtype:

author

Wikipedia

Summary:

Epiphanius of Salamis was bishop of Salamis, Cyprus, at the end of the 4th century. He is considered a saint and a Church Father by both the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. He gained a reputation as a strong defender of orthodoxy. He is best known for composing the Panarion, a very large compendium of the heresies up to his own time, full of quotations that are often the only surviving fragments of suppressed texts. According to Ernst Kitzinger, he "seems to have been the first cleric to have taken up the matter of Christian religious images as a major issue", and there has been much controversy over how many of the quotations attributed to him by the Byzantine Iconoclasts were actually by him. Regardless of this he was clearly strongly against some contemporary uses of images in the church.

Viaf ID:

13651211

DB Pedia ID:

Epiphanius_of_Salamis

Biblical Status:

extraBiblical

Is An Individual:

Yes

Is Published:

Yes

Birth Date:

January 1, AD 315

Death Date:

January 1, AD 403

Occupation:

Bishop of Salamis

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