The Epistles of Cyprian.
Carthage · 258
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Cyprian
Cyprian
210 CE–258 CE · Curubis
Cyprian (c. 200–258 CE) was probably born in North Africa, traditionally identified with Carthage, though no primary source explicitly names his birthplace. He converted to Christianity around 245–246 and was elected bishop of Carthage within a few years of his baptism. He led the North African church through the Decian and Valerian persecutions, corresponding extensively with Rome and other sees while forging a theology of episcopal unity in his treatise On the Unity of the Church. He was arrested under the Valerian edict of 257, exiled to Curubis by the proconsul Aspasius Paternus, recalled to Carthage, tried by the proconsul Galerius Maximus, and beheaded at the Villa Sexti near Carthage on 14 September 258 — the first bishop of Carthage to die a martyr.
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CurubisTunisia
What they did here
Under the first Valerian rescript (257), the proconsul Aspasius Paternus banished Cyprian to Curubis (modern Korba on the Gulf of Hammamet); his sojourn there is explicitly documented in the Acta Proconsularia Cypriani, which records that he arrived accompanied by the deacon Pontius.
About Curubis
Curubis (modern Korba, Tunisia), a town on the Cap Bon peninsula in Roman Africa Proconsularis. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, was exiled there in 257 before his martyrdom the following year.
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Cyprian’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Works(5)
Treatises Attributed to Cyprian on Questionable Authority.
Carthage · 258
The Seventh Council of Carthage under Cyprian. Concerning the Baptism of Heretics.
Carthage · 258
The Treatises of Cyprian.
Carthage · 258
The Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr. By Pontius the Deacon.
Carthage · 258