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Epiphanius

Epiphanius ("clearly manifested") was the name of several early Christian scholars and ecclesiastics:

  1. Epiphanius of Salamis, bishop of Salamis in Cyprus, died 410, author of Panarion
  2. Epiphanius of Constantinople, died 535, Patriarch of Constantinople 520—535
  3. Epiphanius Scholasticus, known only as the assistant of Cassiodorus who compiled the Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome, ca. 510.

See also Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and Epiphanes a mid-2nd century Gnostic writer



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