Epiphanius of Salamis

Epiphanius Constantiensis (Salamiensis, Cypriota)

Biography

Born between 310 and 320 in Palestine (near Eleutheropolis) in a Christian family, Epiphanius travelled to Egypt at the age of 16-17, where he discovered Gnostic sects and monasticism. On his return at the age of 30, he founded a monastery at Besanduc, near Eleutheropolis, and became a priest; his reputation as an ascetic, scholar and theologian no doubt explains his election as bishop of Salamis in Cyprus (now north of Famagusta) in 366 or 367. He was an implacable opponent of Origen and his disciples, drawing Jerome into his camp and cracking down in particular on John II of Jerusalem and then John Chrysostom in Constantinople. He died in 403. 

His mother tongue was Aramaic, but he knew Greek (learnt as a child), Syriac, Hebrew, Coptic and some Latin. His works are written in Greek. His earliest work is the Ancoratus (374), an exposition of faith in the Trinity, the Incarnation and the Resurrection; among his later works, the treatise On Weights and Measures, written in 392, is a kind of manual for studying the Bible.

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Birth date ? (Besanduc)

Village situé près d'Eleuthéropolis (Palestine).

Death date

Il mourut en mer, lors de son retour de Constantinople à Salamine (Chypre).

Activity Salamine
Group of authors Palestine and Cyprus (including Gaza)