authentic · A short letter of consolation to a bishop named Eudoxius, ascribed to Serapion; the recipient is unknown.
Standing
Honoured by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox.
Date
ca. 340-362 (approximate) · Serapion was bishop of Thmuis in the Nile Delta from about 339 and died after 360; the works cannot be dated more closely.
Written at
Thmuis, Egypt (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
letter
Reference system
Single undivided letter (ref 1), PG 40:923-926.
SBL abbreviation
Eud.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 2486 (not yet checked)
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, series Graeca, vol. 40 (Paris, 1858), Serapion of Thmuis (cols. 899-941 here); Greek text separated from the Greek-Latin two-column page in the OCR of the Bavarian State Library copy (the page for cols. 915-916, missing there, read from the page image by Tesseract); Migne's Latin version and notes not reproduced (Printed edition in the public domain; text transcribed from library OCR)
Critical editions
Serapion of Thmuis, Against the Manichees, ed. R. P. Casey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931) (cited only; not used) (cited, not reproduced)