Dorotheus (4)
Dorotheus
a presbyter of Antioch, mentioned by Eusebius as “a man of fine taste in sacred literature, who was much devoted to the study of the Hebrew language, so that he read the Hebrew Scriptures with great facility. He also was of a very liberal mind, and not unacquainted with the preparatory studies pursued among the Greeks, but in other respects a eunuch by nature, having been such from his birth; so that the emperor, on this account, as if it were a great miracle, received him into his house and family, and honored him with an appointment over the purple dye establishment of Tyre. Him we have heard in the church expounding the Scriptures with great judgment.” As Eusebius says that he flourished under Cyril, who is supposed to have been bishop of Antioch from A.D. 280 to 300, the date of Dorotheus may be given as about A.D. 290. Eusebius, Hist. Ecclesiastes book 7, c. 32; Lardner, Works (10 volumes, 8vo), volume 3, 159.
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Dorotheus (2)
bishop of Marcianople, in Mcasia, in the fifth century, was a strong advocate of Nestorianism. He pronounced anathema against all who asserted that Mary was the mother of God. He attended, as a bishop, the Council of Ephesus (opened June 22, 431), which denounced the Nestorians as schismatics; and he was banished to Cappadocia by order of the emperor Theodosius. Four letters of his are preserved in the collection of P. Lupus, entitled Ad Ephesianum Concilium variorum Patrum Epistolae (Louv. 1682, 2 volumes, 4to). Cave, Hist. Lit. (Genev. 1720), 1:269.
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Dorotheus (3)
archimandrite of Palestine, 7th century, a disciple of Joannes the Abbot, wrote , Doctrinae Diversae, given (Gr. and Lat.) in Migne, Patrologia Graeca, 88, page 1611 sq., and in the other great collections of the fathers. See Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca (ed. Harles), 11:103 sq.; Cave, Hist. Lit. (Genev. 1720), 1:373.
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Dorotheus (4)
(1) Martyr with Castor at Tarsus, in Cilicia; commemorated March 28.
(2) Martyr with Gorgonius at Nicomedia, under Diocletian; commemorated September 9. There are two other saints of the same name commemorated on this day one, an anchorite of Thebes, in Egypt, cir. A.D. 395; the other, a founder of a monastery at Trebizond. in the 11th century, over which he is said to have presided many years; but there appears to be some confusion in the name, perhaps by an identification with one or more of the four archimandrites of Palestine who are reported under this name.
(3) First abbot of Lyons, in France, in the 3d century.
(4) A deacon of Antioch, A.D. 372.
(5) A presbyter sent by Basil to seek help from the Roman bishops, A.D. 373.
(6) An Arian bishop (also called Theodorus) of Antioch ‘during’ the Melitian schism, A.D. 376.
(7) Abbot of a nunnery in Athribia (Egypt), cir. A.D. 431.
(8) A monk of Alexandria; banished by the emperor Anastasius, cir. A.D. 502, for writing a book in favor of the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon.
(9) Bishop of Thessalonica, A.D. 515-20.
(10) A monk (also called Droctovaeus) of great virtue, appointed abbot of St. Vincent (France) A.D. 559.