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]PIPHANITU. EPIPHAN1US. Si
-c hosen to succeed him: he had been the"'syncellus" 36; Fabric. Bibl. G-raec. vol. viii. p. 257, xii. pp.
orpersonal attendant (the functions of the syncellus 666, 674.)
are not determined) of his predecessor. The elec- 6. Of CONSTANTINOPLE (2). The life of St.
tion of Epiphanius is stated by Theophanes to have Andreas or Andrew, o ScaAdr (the fool), by his
taken place in Feb. A. D. 512 of the Alexandrian contemporary and friend Nicephorus, contains va:
computation, equivalent to A. D. 519 or probably rious particulars of the history and character of
-520 of the common era; the account, transmitted Epiphanius, a young Constantinopolitan, who is
only four days after his ordination, to pope Hor- described as possessed of every desirable endow*misdas, by the deacon Dioscurus, then at Constan- ment of mind and body, and as having manifested
tinople, as one of the legates of the Roman see, the strongest affection and regard for the saint who
given by Labbe (Concilia, vol. iv. p. 1523), was foretold his elevation to the patriarchate of Conreceived at Rome on the 7th of April, A. D, 520, stantinople. Nicephorus declares that he lived to
*which must therefore have been the year of his see this prophecy fulfilled in the elevation of Epielection. He occupied the see from A. D. 520 till phanius to that metropolitan dignity, but intimates
his death in A. D. 535. Theophanes places his that he changed his name. The Epiphanius of
death in June, A. D. 529, Alex. comput. = A. D. 536 this narrative has been by Fabricius confounded
of the common era, after a patriarchate of sixteen with the' subject of the preceding article; but Janyears and three months; but Pagi (Critic. in Baronii ninghus has shewn that as St. Andrew did not live
Annales ad ann. 535, No. lviii.) shortens this cal- till late in the ninth century and the earlier part of
culation by -a year. Epiphanius was one of the the tenth, the Epiphanius of Nicephorus must have
saints of the Greek calendar, and is mentioned in the lived long after the other. As he changed his'
Mfenologieum translated by Sirletus, but not in that name, he cannot be certainly identified with any of
of the emperor Basil. He was succeeded by An- the patriarchs of Constantinople. Janninghus conthimus, bishop of Trapezus. jectures that he is identical with Polyeuctus or
Some Letters of Epiphanius to pope Hormisdas, Antonius III.(Studita),who occupied the see in the
and of the pope to him,. are extant in Labbe's Con- latter half of the tenth century. (Nicephorus, S.
cilia, vol. iv. col. 1533-4-7, 1545-6, 1554-5; and Andreae Vita, with the Comnlentarizus Praevius of
in the Concilia of Binius, vol. ii. pp. 360-61-64- Janninghus, in the Acta Sanctorem Maii, vol. vi.
65-68 (edit. 1606); in the latter they are given ad fin.; Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 257;
only in Latin. A decree of Epiphanius, and of a Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 505, ed. Oxford, 1740council in which he presided (apparently the coun- 43.)
cil of Constantinople in A. D. 520, during the con- 7. HAGIOPOLITA, or of JERUSALEM. See be.
tinuance of which he was elected tothe patriarchate), low, No. 8.
condemning and anathematizing for heresy Severus, 8. Described as a MONK and PRESBYTER. Alpatriarch of Antioch, Petrus or Peter, bishop of latius (de Symeonum Scriptis, p. 106) gives an
Apamea, and Zoaras, was read at a subsequent account of and extract from a life of the Virgin by
council of Constantinople, A. D. 536, under Menas this Epiphanius, which extract is also given by
or Mennas, successor of Anthimius, and appears in Fabricius, in his Code" Apocryph. N. T. The enLabbe's Concilia, vol. v. col. 251, seq. Some laws tire work has since been published in the Anecdots
and constitutions of Justinian are addressed to Epi- Literaria of Amadutius (vol. iii. p. 39, &c.) with
phanius. (Justin. Cod. 1. tit. 3. s. 42; de Episcopis a Latin version and introduction. WVhen he lived
et Cleris; Novellae, 3, 5.) is not known: it is conjectured that it was in the
In the library of the king of Bavaria at Munich twelfth century, as he mentions Joannes of Thesis a Greek MS. described (Iardt. Catalogus-MSS. salonica and Andreas of Crete (who lived near the
Graec. &c. Cod. cclvi.). as containing, among other end of the seventh century) among "the fathers,"
things, a treatise by Epiphanius, patriarch of Con- and is himself quoted by Nicephorus Callisti
stantinople, on the separation of the Latin and (Eccles. Hist. ii. 23) in the earlier half of the fourGreek churches; and a MS. in the Bodleian Li- teenth century. He wrote also a History of the
brary, Barocc. cxIv. (Catal. MStorum. Angliae Life and acts of St. Andrew the Apostle (Allatils,
et Hiberniae, Oxon. 1697) contains, with other de Symneon. p. 90); and he is probably the author
things, a work by Epiphanius the patriarch On the of an account of Jerusalem and of parts of Syria
excommunication of the Latins b~y the Greeks on ac- (by ",Epiphanius Hagiopolita," i. e. inhabitant of
count of the Controversy concerning the Procession the Holy City), which he describes as an eye-witof the Holy Spirit. Allatius also (adv. Creyggltonum) ness. This account was published, with a Latin
cites Epiphanius Patriarcha, de Origine dissidii version, by Fed. Morellus, in his Expositio Themainter Graecos et Latinzos, probably the same work turn, Paris, 1620, and again by Allatius, in his
as that in the Bavarian MS. But the subjects of Zvj'xlIcTa. It may be observed, that Morellue
these treatises shew they were of later date than published two editions of the Expositio Thematuns
our patriarch, nor have we the means of determin- in the above year, one without the Greek text oF
ing their authorship. An Arabic MS. in the King's Epiphanius, and one with it. A MS. in the Bod.,
Library at Paris (Catal..MStorzm. Bibl. Regiae, leian Library (Barocc. cxlii. No. 20) is described
vol. i. p. 114, Codex cxvIII.) contains what is de- as'containing " Epiphanii Monachi et Presbyteri
scribed as Canonuin Epitome nec accusrata nec anti- Character B. Virginis et Domnini Nrostri" (a difYua, ascribed to Epiphanius. ferent work from that mentioned above); and
The account of Epiphanius by Evagrius con- "ejusdem, utvidetur, deDissidione QuatuorEvan.qetains two errors.' He makes him the successor of listarum circa Resurrectiones Chrwisti." (Catal. hMSS.
Anthimius instead of the predecessor; and to have Anyl. et Hibern. Oxford, 1697.) Some have conbeen succeeded by Menas or Mennas, who was founded him with Epiphanius the friend and disci
the successor, not of Epiphanius, but of Anthimius. ple of St. Andreas the fool, noticed above, No. 6.
(Labbe and Biniis, 1. c.; Theophanes, Chronoyra- (Oudin, Comment. de Scriptor. et Scriptis Ecclesi
phia,: ad annos citat.; Evagrius, Hist. Eccles. iv. vol. ii. pp. 455-6.)