Serapion is a given name, a variant of
Seraphin.
People called Serapion:
*Serapion (3rd-century), neoplatonic philosopher and one of the
disciples of Plotinus
The following is a list of disciples of Plotinus. The philosopher Plotinus was the founder of the school known as Neoplatonism.
Porphyry
Porphyry, the most important of Plotinus's pupils, was born in Tyre c. 233. He was taught first by Cassius ...
*Serapion (4th century), author of the ''
Sacramentary of Serapion of Thmuis The ''Sacramentary'' of Serapion of Thmuis is a work of Saint Serapion (fl. ca. 330 to 360, feast day: March 21), bishop of Thmuis (today Tell el-Timai) in the Nile Delta and a prominent supporter of Athanasius in the struggle against Arianism. He ...
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Serapion of Alexandria
Serapion of Alexandria ( grc-gre, Σεραπίων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς) was a physician who lived in the 3rd century BC. He belonged to the Empiric school, and so much extended and improved the system of Philinus of Cos, that the creation ...
(3rd century BC), Greek physician
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Serapion of Algiers
Serapion of Algiers (1179 – 14 November 1240) was an English Catholic Mercedarian priest and martyr. Thomas O'Loughlin says Serapion was Scottish by birth. Serapion is acknowledged as a proto-martyr. He was the first of his Order to merit th ...
(1179–1240), Mercedarian saint
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Serapion of Antioch
Serapion was a Patriarch of Antioch (191–211). He is known primarily through his theological writings, although all but a few fragments of his works have perished. His feast day is celebrated on October 30.
Serapion was considered one of the c ...
(c. 200 AD), Patriarch of Antioch
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Serapion (Coptic bishop of Los Angeles)
Serapion (; born November 10, 1951) is the first hierarch and bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California, and Hawaii. He was born in Assiut, Kingdom of Egypt on November 10, 1951. Following his graduation from the ...
(b. 1951)
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Serapion of Macedonia
Serapion was a martyr during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus. An Oriental Martyr and celebrated among the Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern M ...
(d. 195), Martyr
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Serapion of Novgorod Serapion (russian: Серапион) (died March 16, 1516) was Archbishop of Novgorod the Great and Pskov from 1506 to 1509. He is a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church; his feast day is March 16 by the Julian calendar.
Serapion came from the Mus ...
(d. 1516), Russian archbishop
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Serapion the Sindonite
Serapion the Sindonite was a Christian monk from Egypt who is considered a saint by the Catholic Church.
Life
Serapion was an Egyptian monk who was noted for his severely ascetic practices.
He lived at a time when monasticism was starting to fl ...
, 4th century Egyptian monk
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Serapion (strategos) Serapion ("presumed" died 41 BC) was strategos of Cyprus and admiral of the Ptolemaic navy during the reign of Cleopatra VII in 43 BC. Against the intention of the Egyptian queen he supported in the Roman civil war Gaius Cassius Longinus, but had t ...
, probably negotiated in 48 BC for Caesar with Achillas, strategos of Cyprus in 43 BC, executed in 41 BC
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Serapion of Vladimir Blessed Serapion of Vladimir (d. 1275) was a bishop of Vladimir.
He was Archimandrite of the Kiev Monastery of the Caves from 1247 until 1274, and was bishop of the diocese of Vladimir, Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod from 1274 until his death the fol ...
(13th century), bishop of Vladimir
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Serapion the Younger
Serapion the Younger was the author of a medicinal-botany book entitled ''The Book of Simple Medicaments''. The book is dated to the 12th or 13th century. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from Serapion the Elder, aka Yahya ibn Sarafy ...
(c. 12th century), physician who wrote ''The Book of Simple Medicine'' (in Arabic)
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Mara bar Serapion
Mara bar Serapion ( syc, ܡܪܐ ܒܪ ܣܪܦܝܘܢ) was a Syriac Stoic philosopher in the Roman province of Syria. He is only known from a letter he wrote in Syriac to his son, who was named Serapion,''The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Int ...
, Syrian stoic
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Yahya ibn Sarafyun
Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century) a Syriac physician, known in Europe as Johannes Serapion, and commonly called Serapion the Elder to distinguish him from Serapion the Younger, with whom he was often confused.
Biography
Nothing is known of the even ...
(9th century), also known as Serapion the Elder or Johannes Serapion, Christian physician who wrote two medical compilations in Syriac
See also
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Sarapion
Sarapion ( grc, Σαράπιον, also spelled Serapion) was an ancient proto-Somali port city in present-day Somalia. It was situated on a site that later became Mogadishu. Sarapion was briefly mentioned in Ptolemy's ''Geographia'' as one of the ...
(Serapion), ancient port city in present-day south-central Somalia
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''Saint Serapion'' (Zurbarán), an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist
Francisco de Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán ( , ; baptized 7 November 1598 – 27 August 1664) was a Spanish Painting, painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nicknam ...
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Serapion Brothers
The Serapion Brothers (or Serapion Fraternity, russian: Серапионовы Братья) was a group of writers formed in Petrograd, Russian SFSR in 1921. The group was named after a literary group, ''Die Serapionsbrüder'' ( The Serapion Bret ...
, a literary movement in the early Soviet Union
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