Serapion

Serapion

By way of supplement we add the following bearers of that name: (1), eighth bishop of Antioch, successor of Maximus, and opponent of the Montanists; mentioned by Eusebius, Hist. Eccles. 5:19, 22; (2), a martyr by the name of Serapion is mentioned by Eusebius, 4:41, said to have suffered martyrdom under Decius at Alexandria; (3), a third one by the same name is mentioned by Eusebius, 4:44, as belonging to the lapsi (q.v.); (4), another Serapion is mentioned by Cassian in Collat. 10:2, See Sozom. 8:11; Schrockh, 8:451; Gieseler, 1:2, 244; Plitt-Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s.v. (B.P.)