Anti-Heretical Writerswriter
Who he was
- The eighth bishop of Antioch.
- His episcopate corresponded more or less with the reign of Septimus Severus (b. 146 - d. 211).
- It is interesting that a large fragment of the Apocryphal Gospel of St. Peter, discovered at Akhmim, Egypt in 1886, corresponds exactly to Serapion’s description.
- It is on the whole Orthodox, but contains strange ideas inspired byDocetism.
What he wrote
- His letter to Pontius and Caricus deals with the Montanistic heresy, and states that the so-called new prophecy of this false order is abominated in the whole of Christendom, throughout the world.
- In another letter addressed to the Church of Rhossus in Cilicia he deals with the Apocryphal Gospel of St. Peter.
- Eusebius knew of a third letter of Serapion addressed to a certain Domnus.