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A presbyter of Philippi who, along with his wife, fell into covetousness; the central pastoral problem addressed in Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians (ch. 11).
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(1), a presbyter of Philippi mentioned by St. Polycarp (Ad Philip. § 11) as having caused a scandal in his church through some sin of covetousness. [C. H.]
(2), the twenty-eighth bishop of Jerusalem, the eleventh of the Gentile succession. The beginning of his episcopate 1s placed in the first year of Caracalla, A.D. 211. He succeeded Capito, and was succeeded by Dulichianus. Eutychius (376) assigns him three years of office. (Euseb. H. #. v. 12; Epiphan. Haer. Ixvi. 20, Chron. Armen.) [E. V.]
(8), June 1, martyr at Caesarea, a deacon of the church of Aelia (Jerusalem). He was eminent for his knowledge of the scriptures. He suffered with Pamphilus in the Diocletian persecution (Euseb. Dart. Palaest. cap. xi.) [GS
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