On Illustrious Men

112. Cyril the bishop

CXII. CYRIL THE BISHOP yril, bishop of Jerusalem,1 many times excommunicated from his church2 but finally reinstated under the emperor Theodosius,3 held the episcopacy uninterruptedly for eight years.4 2. His Kathchvsei", Catecheses,5 which he composed in his youth, are still extant. notes 1. F. Cardman, “Fourth-Century Jerusalem: Religious Geography and Christian Tradition,” in Schools of Thought in the Christian Tradition, ed. P. Henry (Philadelphia, 1984). 2. “many times”: the details are spelled out in Chron., a.d. 348, ed. Helm, 237a, trans. Donalson, 45. And Q 3, 362, relates: “He was expelled three times from his see. He was first deposed at a council in Jerusalem in 357 and took refuge in Tarsus. After he was restored by the council at Seleucia in the next year, Acacius banished him again in 360, but he was allowed to return to his see in 362 on Julian’s accession. Though Acacius died in 366, Cyril’s longest exile was yet to come. In 367 the emperor Valens deprived him once more of his diocese, which he did not regain until eleven years later (378) after the ruler’s death.” 3. Theodosius reigned, 379–395. 4. “eight years”: see P. Nautin, “La date du De viris illustribus de Jérôme de la mort de Cyrille de Jérusalem et de celle de Grégoire de Nazianze,” RHE 56 (1961): 33–35. 5. Kathchvsei~: see most recently G. Maestri and V. Saxer, Cirillo e Giovanni di Gerusalemme, Catechesi prebattesimali e mistagogiche (Milan, 1994); Eng. trans. by Leo P. McCauley and Anthony A. Stephenson, FOTC 61 and 64; A. Pauli, Saint Cyrille de Jérusalem catéchese, Lex orandi 29 (Paris, 1959); C. Renoux, “La lecture biblique dans la liturgie de Jérusalem,” in Le monde grec et la Bible, ed. C. Mondésert, 171–93; A. A. Stephenson, “The Lenten Catechetical Syllabus in Fourth-Century Jerusalem,” TS 15 (1954): 103– 16; R. Gregg, “Cyril of Jerusalem and the Arians,” in Arianism (Cambridge, Mass., 1985), 85–105. references Q 3, 362–76 — Dr, 247–50 — TLG 2110 — CPG 3585–3588 — Cath 3, 412–14, G. Bardy — DHGE 13, 1181–85, G. Bardy — DSp 2, 2, 2683–87, G. Bardy — EEC 12 , 312–13, F. W. Norris — EECh 1, 215, M. Simonetti — 146 ST. JEROME ...