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Icon of St. Cyril of Alexandria. Cyril regarded the embodiment of God in the person of Jesus Christ to be so mystically powerful that it spread out from the body of the God-man into the rest of the race, to reconstitute human nature into a graced and deified condition of the saints, one that promised immortality and transfiguration to believers.
Saints Cyril and Methodius are the most celebrated saints in the Bulgarian Orthodox church, and icons of the two brothers can be found in every church. In North Macedonia , it is celebrated on 24 May and is known as the "Saints Cyril and Methodius, Slavonic Enlighteners' Day" ( Macedonian : Св.
Cyril left important writings documenting the instruction of catechumens and the order of the Liturgy in his day. Cyril is venerated as a saint within the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. In 1883, Cyril was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII.
Saint Cyril the Philosopher (826–869), Christian theologian and missionary, credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet; Pope Cyril II of Alexandria (1078–1092), Patriarch of Alexandria; Kirill of Turov (1130–1182), Christian theologian and bishop; Pope Cyril V of Alexandria (1874–1927), Patriarch of Alexandria
Cyril sent a letter to Nestorius known as "The Third Epistle of Saint Cyril to Nestorius." This epistle drew heavily on the established Patristic Constitutions and contained the most famous article of Alexandrian Orthodoxy: "The Twelve Anathemas of Saint Cyril." In these anathemas, Cyril excommunicated anyone who followed the teachings of ...
The 12 Anathemas of Saint Cyril were propositions that Cyril of Alexandria drew up in his 3rd Letter to Nestorius. Nestorius was outraged and a 'pamphlet war' began between the School of Antioch and School of Alexandria. There were mutual accusations of heresy and the result was that the two sides met at the Council of Ephesus in 431.
Cyril I of Constantinople (Cyril Lucaris or Kyrillos Loukaris (Greek: Κύριλλος Λούκαρις; 13 November 1572 – 27 June 1638) was a Greek prelate and theologian, and a native of Heraklion, Crete (then under the Republic of Venice). [1]
Saint Cyril of Alexandria. The anaphora of Saint Mark (or Saint Cyril) found in the High Middle Ages manuscripts shows all the typical peculiarities of the Alexandrine Rite, such as a long Preface which includes an offering and immediately followed by the intercessions, two epiclesis, the absence of the Benedictus in the Sanctus. [15]