Cyril of Jerusalem, Saint
- Cyril of Jerusalem, Saint
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died 386?, Jerusalem; feast day March 18
Early leader of the Christian church.
He became bishop of Jerusalem с 350. He was exiled three times by the
Arians but was suspected by the strictly orthodox many years later, at the Council of
Constantinople (381), for his association with moderate Arians. He anticipated the doctrine of
transubstantiation in his writings and promoted Jerusalem as a pilgrimage centre. He was named a Doctor of the Church in 1883.
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▪ Christian bishop
born c. 315, Jerusalem
died 386?, Jerusalem; feast day March 18
bishop of Jerusalem and doctor of the church who fostered the development of the “holy city” as a pilgrimage centre for all Christendom.
A senior presbyter when he succeeded Maximus as bishop (c. 350), Cyril was exiled about 357 and at two later times from his see by the Arians. Many years later at the Council of Constantinople (381) there was evidence that he might have been suspected by the strictly orthodox for his associations with the Homoiousians (moderate Arians), who had reinstated him as bishop at the Council of Seleucia (359). He retained his bishopric during the reign of Emperor Julian the Apostate (361–363).
Cyril's primary surviving work is a collection of 23 catechetical lectures (Catecheses) delivered to candidates for Baptism. The first 18, based on the Jerusalem baptismal creed, were given during Lent, and the concluding 5 instructed the newly baptized during the week after Easter. Cyril was declared a doctor of the church in 1883.
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