Apollinaris of Laodicea
310 CE–382 CE · Laodicea ad Mare (Latakia)
Apollinaris (c. 310 - c. 382) was bishop of Laodicea ad Mare (modern Latakia) on the Syrian coast and a staunch defender of Nicene orthodoxy who nonetheless taught that in Christ the divine Logos took the place of a human rational soul - denying Christ a complete human nature, a view later called Apollinarism. His teaching was condemned at the First Council of Constantinople (381), shortly before his death.
Contested teaching
The First Council of Constantinople (381) condemned Apollinaris's teaching that the divine Logos replaced Christ's human rational soul, denying his full humanity.
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As bishop of Laodicea ad Mare on the Syrian coast, Apollinaris defended Nicene orthodoxy yet taught that the divine Logos replaced Christ's human soul - condemned at Constantinople in 381, shortly before his death.
About Laodicea ad Mare (Latakia)
Laodicea ad Mare (modern Latakia, on the Syrian coast). Apollinaris of Laodicea was its bishop in the later 4th century; his christology, denying a human mind in Christ, was condemned as the Apollinarian heresy.
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