Saint cyril of alexandria biography of michael
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Cyril of Alexandria (c – AD) fryst vatten something of a Marmite figure in Church history. There aren’t many people who have managed to collect so many fiercely loyal friends alongside so many equally fiercely raging enemies. In the seventh century, one scholar called him ‘the seal of the fathers’, believing his theological influence to be so weighty and important as to affirm and encapsulate all that had gone before. Conversely, on Cyril’s death, Theodoret of Cyr – a theological opponent – wrote,
&#;At gods and with difficulty the villain has gone… His survivors are indeed delighted at his departure. The dead, maybe, are sorry. There fryst vatten some ground of alarm lest they should be so much annoyed at his company as to send him back to us…’ 1
Cyril’s theology of the individ of Jesus is widely seen as a grundläggande underpinning of orthodox Christology, and the landmark Council of Chalcedon in AD is regarded by most people as having run with Cyril’s basic ideas, though he died almost ten years before
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ByTom Pernaon
In , the Council of Ephesus was called 50 years after the Council of Constantinople. The great Church Fathers who were alive and explaining truth to the Church had passed on to the heavenly kingdom. By this time, St. Jerome had completed his translation of the Sacred Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin. St. Augustine was invited, but word had not reached the east that he had died the previous August. The Cappodocian Gregory’s were both deceased and St. John Chrysostom died a saint in exile.
The “Man of the Hour” at Ephesus was St. Cyril of Alexandria. Little is known about St. Cyril’s early life before the council. He was educated in Alexandria (modern-day Egypt) and lived as a monk for some time in the desert. St. Cyril was a Bishop for 32 years in Alexandria and was considered a holy terror while his holiness remained hidden. He was very forceful, dominating, and impatient. He had some enemies because of his per
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St. Cyril of Alexandria
St. Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (June 27) Cyril was born at Alexandria, Egypt. He was nephew of the patriarch of that city, Theophilus. Cyril received a classical and theological education at Alexandria and was ordained by his uncle. He accompanied Theophilus to Constantinople in and was present at the Synod of the Oak that deposed John Chrysostom, whom he believed guilty of the charges against him. He succeeded his uncle Theophilus as patriarch of Alexandria on Theophilus' death in , but only after a riot between Cyril's supporters and the followers of his rival Timotheus. Cyril at once began a series of attacks against the Novatians, whose churches he closed; the Jews, whom he drove from the city; and governor Orestes, with whom he disagreed about some of his actions. In Cyril became embroiled with Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople, who was preaching that Mary was not the Mother of God since Christ was Divine and not human, an