In Carthage the followers of Felicissimus elected Fortunatus as bishop in opposition to Cyprian, while in Rome the followers of the Roman presbyter Novatian, who also refused absolution to all the lapsed, elected their man as bishop of Rome, in opposition to Cornelius.

Besides a number of epistles, which are partly collected with the answers of those to whom they were written, Cyprian wrote a number of treatises, some of which have also the character of pastoral letters.

The treatise entitled De duplici martyrio ad Fortunatum and attributed to Cyprian was not only published by Erasmus, but probably also composed by him.

A Saint Cyprian, disciple and biographer of St. Cæsarius of Arles, is also mentioned as a Bishop of Toulon.

It reads, “ Cornelius Martyr .” The letters Cornelius sent while in exile are all written in the colloquial Latin of the period instead of the classical style used by the educated such as Cyprian, a theologian as well as a bishop, and Novatian, who was also a philosopher.

The Donatists also drew their beliefs from the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian.

It is the term given to the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin translation from the Greek ; and also in quotations from certain 2nd and 3rd-century Christian writers, including Cyprian, Tertullian and Irenaeus.

It explains, also, almost the universal veneration very quickly paid to some martyrs, e. g., St. Lawrence, St. Cyprian of Carthage, Pope St. Sixtus of Rome,

Calvin wrote also that " those to whom he is a Father, the Church must also be a mother ," echoing the words of the originator of the Latin phrase himself, Cyprian: " He can no longer have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother.

Cyprian was an erudite person and oversaw the copying and creation of a number of important works, including the Troitskaia Chronicle ( or Troitskaya letopis ) and, probably, the Metropolitan Justice ( also known as the Pravosudiye metropolich ’ ye or Правосудие митрополичье ).

He also influenced the poet Cyprian Norwid, philosopher Bronisław Trentowski and philosopher, art historian and proto-psychologist Józef Kremer.

On 27 March 1882, the dignity of cardinal was conferred upon Lavigerie, given the titulus of Sant ' Agnese fuori le mura, but the great object of his ambition was to restore the see of St Cyprian ; and in that also he was successful, for by a bull of 10 November 1884 the metropolitan see of Carthage was re-erected, and Lavigerie received the pallium on 25 January 1885.

Commodianus is supposed to have been from Roman Africa, partly on the ground of his similarity to Cyprian, partly because the African school was the chief center of Christian Latinity in the third century ; Syrian origin has also been suggested.

Novatian died in 258, probably during Valerian's persecutions, in the same year as his great opponent Cyprian.

" How great will your glory and happiness be, to be allowed to see God, to be honored with sharing the joy of salvation and eternal light with Christ your Lord and God ... to delight in the joy of immortality in the Kingdom of Heaven with the righteous and God's friends " ~ St. Cyprian

His disciple, Cyprian ( Bishop of Carthage 248-58 ) appeals to the same fundamental principle of election to a vacant see in the aftermath of the Decian Persecution when denying the legitimacy of his rigorist rival in Carthage and that of the anti-pope Novatian in Rome ; however, the emphasis is now on legitimating his episcopal ministry as a whole and specifically his exclusive right to administer discipline to the lapsed rather than on the content of what is taught.

Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.

They arise out of a primitive practice on the part of the bishop ( local president ), examples of which are found in the Didachē ( Teaching of the Apostles ) and in the letters of Clement of Rome and Cyprian.

The proconsul on circuit, and five commissioners for each town, administered the edict ; but, when the proconsul reached Carthage, Cyprian had fled.

A vast multitude followed Cyprian on his last journey.

* Cyprian on the nature of the Church and Papacy by Dom John Chapman

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* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

Even St Cyprian concurred in the latter case for those who refused to repent until on their deathbed, but this was down to the fact that he felt such confessions might not be sincere.

And the fact that Cyprian did not quote the " exact wording ... indicates that a Trinitarian interpretation was superimposed on the text by Cyprian ".

Not depriving the Mauri of their line of kings would have contributed to preserving loyalty and order, it appears: " The Mauri, indeed, manifestly worship kings, and do not conceal their name by any disguise ," Cyprian observed in 247, likely quoting a geographer rather than personal observation, in his brief euhemerist exercise in deflating the gods entitled On the Vanity of Idols.

The Cyprian citation, dating to more than a century before any extant 1 John manuscripts, remains a central focus of Comma discussion.

However, that does not necessarily mean an end to Jewish Christianity, any more than Valerian's Massacre of 258, ( when he killed all Christian bishops, presbyters, and deacons, including Pope Sixtus II and Antipope Novatian and Cyprian of Carthage ), meant an end to Roman Christianity.

These setbacks however didn't necessarily mean an end to Jewish Christianity, any more than Valerian's Massacre of 258, ( when he killed all Christian bishops, presbyters, and deacons, including Pope Sixtus II and Antipope Novatian and Cyprian of Carthage ), meant an end to Roman Christianity.

Icon of St. Cyprian of Carthage, who urged diligence in the process of canonization

And Saint Cyprian ( died 258 ) recommended that the utmost diligence be observed in investigating the claims of those who were said to have died for the faith.

Stephen held that converts who had been baptized by splinter groups did not need re-baptism, while Cyprian and certain bishops of the Roman province of Africa held rebaptism necessary for admission to the Eucharist.

:* Cyprian wrote of them " How, when God the Father is not known -- nay, is even blasphemed -- can they who among the heretics are said to be baptized in the name of Christ only, be judged to have obtained the remission of sins?

Thus, by the doctrinal works he published, Tertullian became the teacher of Cyprian and the predecessor of Augustine, who, in turn, became the chief founder of Latin theology.

Their requests were granted early, with no regard being paid to the demand of Cyprian and his faithful among the Carthaginian clergy, who insisted upon earnest repentance.

Felicissimus, who had been ordained deacon by the presbyter Novatus during the absence of Cyprian, opposed all steps taken by Cyprian's representatives.

Cornelius had the support of St. Cyprian, St. Dionysius, and most African and Eastern bishops while Novatian had the support of a minority of clergy and laymen in Rome who did not acknowledge Cornelius as pope.

Clement of Alexandria in his Protrepticus talks about the " Cyprian Islander Cinyras, who dared to bring forth from night to the light of day the lewd orgies of Aphrodite in his eagerness to deify a strumpet of his own country.

William Sanday describes him as " one of the precursors of that group of writers who, from Irenaeus to Cyprian, not only break the obscurity which rests on the earliest history of the Church, but alike in the East and in the West carry it to the front in literary eminence, and distance all their heathen contemporaries ".

In the middle of the 3rd century we find St. Cyprian enjoining that there should be no oblation or public prayer made for a deceased layman who had broken the Church's rule by appointing a cleric trustee under his will: " He ought not to be named in the priests prayer who has done his best to detain the clergy from the altar.

) The daily bread in this prayer given by Jesus is a reference to the Eucharist according to many Church Fathers including St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, and St. Cyprian of Carthage who in 251 wrote: " As the prayer continues, we ask and say, ' Give us this day our daily bread.

Though Cyprian failed to canonize Ermac, he made an effort to immortalize the warrior, who he considered to be the " Grand Inquisitor " of Siberia.

Although all the provinces and all the cities held bishops of venerable age, pure faith and proven virtue, who had been proscribed during the persecution, Cyprian writes ( Letter LV, 24 ) that Novatian dared to replace them with new bishops he had created himself.

Those who see Cyprian as a negative evidence assert that other theologians such as Athanasius of Alexandria.

In 1390, Cyprian was returned to Moscow by Vasili II, who he had always supported, and appointed Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia.

Cyprian is remembered as a wise and experienced church administrator who fought for the unity of the Russian church.

* Pontius of Carthage, deacon in Carthage, early Christian writer from the middle of the 3rd century, who wrote a description of the life of Church Father Cyprian of Carthage

One was a Cyprian fable about doves escaping from a sacrificial fire only to fall into another fire later on ( demonstrating that wrong-doers eventually get their just deserts ), and the other was a Carian fable about a fisherman who espies an octopus in the winter sea and wonders whether or not to dive after it, since this is a choice between his children starving or himself freezing to death ( i. e. you're damned if you do and damned if you don't ).