Monday, September 15, 2014

Known as the "African Pope" he proved the reality of the Chair of Peter

St. Cyprian


Image of St. Cyprian

Facts

Feastday: September 16
Death: 258

Cyprian of Carthage, Bishop often called the African Pope, was an important Patristic writer of the early Church. His writings can be found in most patristic books including Jurgens, Vol. 1 pg. 216. AD258 One of the early writers of the Primacy of the Pope as stated in :The Unity of the Catholic Church". A very important writer which shows that the Protestant view that the Chair of Peter was a later invention, is false.

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