John Of Citrus
John Of Citrus [1]
(now Kitro or Kidros), in Macedonia, the ancient Pydna, was bishop of that see about A.D. 1200. He is the author of Αποκρίσεις Πρὸς Κωνσταντῖνον Ἀρχιεπίσκοπον Δυῤῥαχίου Τὸν Καβάσιλαν ( Responsa Ad Constantinum Cabasilum, Archiepiscopum Dyrrachii ) , of which sixteen answers, with the questions prefixed, are given with a Latin version in the Jus Groeco-Romanorum of Leunclavius (Frankf. 1596, folio), 5, 323. A larger portion of the Response is given in the Synopsis Juris Groeci of Thomas Diplovaticius (Diplovatizio). Several MSS. of the Responsa contain twenty-four answers, others thirty-two; and Nicholas Comnenus Papadopoli, citing the work in his Proenotiones Mystagogicoe, speaks of a hundred. In one MS. he is mentioned with the surname Of Dalassinus . Allatius, in his De Consensu, and Contra Hottingerum, quotes De Consuetudinibus Et Dogmatibus Latinorum as the production of John of Citrus. See Fabricius, Bibl. Groeca , 11, 341, 590; Cave, Hist. Lit. 2. 279; Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, 2, 593.
