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Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage (North Africa), congratulates the presbyter Rogatianus and his fellow prisoners on their previous behaviour, warning them against pride, unchastity, jealousy, and other sins. Cyprian, Letter 13, AD 250.
Epistula 13
 
Cyprianus Rogatiano Presbytero et ceteris confessoribus fratribvs s[alutem]
 
Rogatianus and his fellow prisoners have recently been released from prison. Cyprian congratulates them on this and on their previous behaviour, warning them against pride, unchastity, jealousy, and other sins.
 
(ed. Diercks 1994: 71-78)
Letter 13
 
Cyprian to the presbyter Rogatianus and other brothers confessors, greetings.
 
Rogatianus and his fellow prisoners have recently been released from prison. Cyprian congratulates them on this and on their previous behaviour, warning them against pride, unchastity, jealousy, and other sins.
 
(trans. and summary by S. Adamiak)

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
City
  • Carthage

About the source:

Author: Cyprian
Title: Letters, Epistulae, Epistolae
Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Cyprian was born probably about 200 AD. He converted to Christianity in about 245 and in 248 was elected Bishop of Carthage. Soon after, the Decian persecution began (in 249/250) and Cyprian went into hiding. In 251 he returned to the city. Under Valerian, he was exiled in 257 and executed in 258. The epistolary of Cyprian consists of 81 letters (16 of them by his correspondents, and 6 synodal or collective), the majority of them are from the period of 250-251, when they were the means of Cyprian`s communication with his clergy. They offer us a wide view on the organization of the Church in Carthage in the middle of the third century, her relation with the Church of Rome, on the development of the persecutions, and on the conflicts that they caused inside the Church.
Different numerations of Cyprian's letters exist, I follow the edition of Diercks in Corpus Christianorum.
Edition:
G.F. Diercks ed., Sancti Cypriani Episcopi Epistularium. Epistulae 1-57, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 3B, Turnhout 1994.
Bibliography:
Saint Cyprien, Lettres 1-20, Introduction, texte, traduction et commentaire par S. Deléani, Paris 2007.

Categories:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Administration of justice - Imprisonment
Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1077, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1077
Record by: Stanisław Adamiak
last edited: 2017-11-29 15:44:05
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