Epiphanius, St
Epiphanius, St (c.315–403). Church father and bishop of Salamis in Cyprus. He was a strong supporter of Nicaea, and opponent of heresy. His most important writing was the Refutation of all Heresies (in Gk. the Panarion, ‘medicine chest’), in which he attacked all heresies (or all that he knew) up to his own time.
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