Archelaus ( grc, Ἀρχέλαος) was the
bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
of
Carrhae.
In 278 AD, he held a public dispute with a number of
Manichaeans
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in New Persian ; ) is a former major religionR. van den Broek, Wouter J. Hanegraaff ''Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times''SUNY Press, 1998 p. 37 founded in the 3rd century AD by the Parthian prophet Mani (AD ...
-- that is, followers of
Mani
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-- an account of which he published in
Syriac Syriac may refer to:
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*Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region
* Syriac alphabet
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* Neo-Aramaic languages a ...
. The work was soon translated both into Greek and into Latin.: ''The acts of disputation of Archelaus, bishop of Cashar in Mesopotamia, with the heresiarch Manes'' (1871). Translated by Scottish educator
Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond
Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1838 in Aberdeen – 20 April 1905) was a Scottish educator, writer and editor.
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Salmond was educated at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen, and at Erlangen University, and was assistant ...
(1838–1905).
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Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond
. In the
Ante-Nicene Christian library
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, Volume VI–Fathers of the Third Century (see also works related to
Ante-Nicene Fathers
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at Wikisource).
A large fragment of the Latin version was published by
Henri Valois
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in his edition of
Socrates
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and
Sozomen
Salamanes Hermias Sozomenos ( grc-gre, Σαλαμάνης Ἑρμείας Σωζομενός; la, Sozomenus; c. 400 – c. 450 AD), also known as Sozomen, was a Roman lawyer and historian of the Christian Church.
Family and home
He was born arou ...
. The same version, almost entire, was again printed, with the fragments of the Greek version, by Zaccaignius in his ''Collcet. Monument. Vet., Rom.'' 1698, and by German classical scholar
Johann Albert Fabricius
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Fabricius was born at Leipzig, son of Werner Fabricius, director of music in the church of St. Paul at Leipzig, who was the ...
in his edition of
Hippolytus of Rome
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.
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3rd-century Mesopotamian bishops
3rd-century Christian theologians
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