Serapion
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Physicians
- Serapion of AlexandriaSerapion of AlexandriaSerapion of Alexandria, 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 of the school is attributed to him by some ancient writers. Serapion wrote against Hippocrates with much...
(3rd century BC), Greek physician - Yahya ibn SarafyunYahya ibn SarafyunYahya ibn Sarafyun a Syrian 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:...
(9th century), also known as Serapion the Elder or Johannes Serapion, Christian physician who wrote two medical compilations in Syriac - Serapion the YoungerSerapion the YoungerSerapion the Younger was an Arabic medical writer who wrote in the 12th century . He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from Serapion the Elder, aka Yahya ibn Sarafyun, an earlier Arabic medical writer with whom he was often confused...
(c. 12th century), physician who wrote The Book of Simple Medicine (in Arabic)
Christianity
- Saint Serapion of MacedoniaSerapion of MacedoniaFor other uses, see SerapionSerapion was a martyr during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus. An Oriental Martyr and celebrated among the Greeks, Serapion converted many Pagans and in the end was arrested and died at the stake. He is believed to have been put to death in Macedonia, in...
(d. 195), Martyr - Serapion of AntiochSerapion of AntiochSerapion was Patriarch of Antioch . He is known primarily through his theological writings. Eusebius refers to three works of Serapion in his history, but admits that others probably existed: first is a private letter addressed to Caricus and Pontius against Montanism, from which Eusebius quotes an...
(c. 200 AD), Patriarch of Antioch - Saint Serapion of Thmuis (4th century)
- Saint Serapion of AlgiersSerapion of AlgiersSaint Serapion of Algiers was a Mercedarian friar who is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church, and as a proto-martyr by the Mercedarian Order...
(1179 – 1240), Mercedarian saint - Saint Serapion (Archbishop of Novgorod)Serapion (Archbishop of Novgorod)Serapion 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....
(?-1516) - Bishop SerapionBishop SerapionBishop Serapion of the Los Angeles was born in Assiut on November 10, 1951. Following his graduation from the Faculty of Medicine at Assiut in 1975, Bishop Serapion formerly practiced medicine in Aswan.-Joining the Monastery:...
(1951-) of Los Angeles of the Coptic Orthodox Church
Other
- SerapionSerapion (strategos)Serapion was strategos of Cyprus 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 and was for this reason executed in 41 BC...
, probably negotiated in 48 BC for Caesar with Achillas, strategos of Cyprus in 43 BC, executed in 41 BC - Saint Serapion (Zurbarán)Saint Serapion (Zurbarán)Saint Serapion or The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion is a 1628 oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Zurbarán . The work was commissioned by the The Mercedarian Order to hang in the De Profundis hall of their monastery in Seville...
an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco ZurbaránFrancisco ZurbaránFrancisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes...
. - Serapion BrothersSerapion BrothersThe Serapion Brothers was a group of writers formed in Petrograd, Russia in 1921. The group was named after a literary group, Die Serapionsbrüder , to which German romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann belonged and after which he named a collection of his tales...
, a literary movement in the early Soviet Union - Sarapion, ancient port city on the Somali Peninsula