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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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Apollinaris of Laodicea’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Christian world
- Donatus Magnus· 270 CE–355 CE
- Aphrahat· 280 CE–345 CE
- Pachomius· 292 CE–346 CE
- Athanasius of Alexandria· 296 CE–373 CE
- Macarius of Egypt· 300 CE–390 CE
- Zeno of Verona· 300 CE–380 CE
- Pope St. Damasus I· 305 CE–384 CE
- Ephrem the Syrian· 306 CE–373 CE
- Hilary of Poitiers· 310 CE–367 CE
- Cyril of Jerusalem· 313 CE–386 CE
- Gregory of Nazianzus· 329 CE–390 CE
- Basil of Caesarea· 330 CE–379 CE
- Pope St. Siricius· 334 CE–399 CE
- Gregory of Nyssa· 335 CE–395 CE
- Ambrose of Milan· 339 CE–397 CE
- Rufinus of Aquileia· 344 CE–411 CE
- Evagrius Ponticus· 345 CE–399 CE
- Chromatius of Aquileia· 345 CE–407 CE
- John Chrysostom· 349 CE–407 CE
- Pope Liberius· –366 CE
- Pope St. Anastasius I· –401 CE
- Pope St. Julius I· –352 CE
- Pope St. Innocent I· –417 CE
- Pope St. Zosimus· –418 CE
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