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Saint Cyprian and the demon, 14th-century manuscript of the Golden Legend.. Cyprian, known by the title of "the Magician", to distinguish him from Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, received a liberal education in his youth, and particularly applied himself to astrology; after which he traveled for improvement through Greece, Egypt, India, etc. [3] Cyprian was a magician in Antioch and dealt in sorcery.
Cyprian (/ ˈ s ɪ p r i ən /; Latin: Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus; ca. 210 to 14 September 258 AD [1]) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant.
Kyprianos or Cyprian (Koutsoumpas) (Greek: Κυπριανός (Κουτσούμπας); 1935 – May 30, 2013) was an Old Calendarist, and metropolitan of Oropos and Fyli and President of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece - Holy Synod in Resistance.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Cyprian, formerly a Cypriot ... "Kyprianos (1766–1783)". Official web site of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate ...
The local Orthodox Christians shared some of the benefits of the economic development of Cyprus and especially Famagusta at the time. The Orthodox cathedral of St George (known as Saint George of the Greeks – today in ruins) is almost as high and monumental as the nearby Catholic cathedral of St Nicholas (a mosque since 1571), and is also an ...
Theognostus, Cyprian, Photius. Cyprian [a] (c. 1336 – 16 September 1406) was a prelate of Bulgarian origin, [1] who served as the Metropolitan of Kiev, Rus' and Lithuania (2 December 1375–12 February 1376) and the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus' (12 February 1376–16 September 1406) in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Flag of the Greek Orthodox Church Double-headed eagle emblem of John VIII Palaiologos (r. 1425–1448). The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Mount Athos, and also the Greek Orthodox Churches in the diaspora under the Patriarchate use a black double-headed eagle in a yellow field as their flag or emblem.
Among Greek Orthodox believers, the wedding sponsors, the koumbari, act as godparents to the first child. The baptism ceremony of the Greek Orthodox church involves several steps. It begins at the narthex of the church, where the godparents speak for the child, renounce Satan, blow three times in the air and spit three times on the floor.