Cyril of Jerusalem Sebastian P. Brock Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University The International Balzan Prize Foundation George A. Kiraz Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts Lucas Van Rompay Ute Possekel Daniel L. Schwartz David A. Michelson Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, and TEI editing by Ute S. Posssekel Data cleaning and initial valid TEI encoding by David Michelson XSLT transformations by Winona Salesky Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, TEI schema, and TEI encoding and editing by Daniel L. Schwartz Conversion to semantic XML by George A. Kiraz Electronic Edition Version 1.5 Published by Gorgias Press LLC, 954 River Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA www.gorgiaspress.com for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Published with the collaboration of Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Published and hosted with the collaboration of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University

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Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition George A. Kiraz Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts Lucas Van Rompay Ute Possekel Daniel L. Schwartz David A. Michelson Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, and TEI editing by Ute S. Posssekel Data cleaning and initial valid TEI encoding by David Michelson XSLT transformations by Winona Salesky Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, TEI schema, and TEI encoding and editing by Daniel L. Schwartz Conversion to semantic XML by George A. Kiraz Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts George A. Kiraz Lucas Van Rompay Piscataway, N.J. Gorgias Press for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute 2011 Copyright ©2011 by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute ISBN: 978-1-59333-714-8
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Cyril of Jerusalem https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Cyril-of-Jerusalem http://syriaca.org/bibl/153 144 http://syriaca.org/person/431 person Bp. of Jerusalem and Greek Church Father. (ca. 315–387)

Bp. of Jerusalem and Greek Church Father. Cyril became bp. ca. 349, but was exiled on various occasions for his opposition to Arianism. Only excerpts from his main work, the Catechetical Homilies, survive in Syriac translation. (Fragments of a complete translation are preserved in Christian Palestinian Aramaic, ed. C. Müller-Kessler and M. Sokoloff, 1999).

Three extracts from the Mystagogical Catecheses (IV.1, 2, 4) are given in the Syr. Catholic Fenqitho (VI., 371–2. 273–4, 376–7) for Corpus Christi.

Syriac translations of two letters are preserved: 1. on the vision of the Cross, ed. with ET, J. F. Coakley, in AB 102 (1984), 71–84; and 2. on the attempted rebuilding of the Temple in 363, ed. with ET, S. P. Brock, in BSOAS 40 (1977), 267–86 (repr. in Syriac Perspectives on Late Antiquity [1984], ch .X). The second letter probably dates from after Cyril’s death (though Wainwright considers it genuine); its list of towns affected by the earthquake of 363 has proved important for Palestinian archaeology of that period.

A series of short hymns for Good Friday are found in four medieval mss., two of which attribute them to Cyril of Jerusalem (ed. A. Baumstark, in <abbr>OC</abbr> III.4 [1930], 232–47); they are also extant in Greek (where they are attributed to Sophronius of Jerusalem [d. 638], or Cyril of Alexandria , or anonymous), and in Georgian (anonymous).

For the Anaphora of Cyril, see under Cyril of Alexandria.

His commemoration is given as either 17 or 18 March.

Sources <abbr>CPG</abbr> 3585–3618. J. W.  Drijvers, ‘Cyril of Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Temple’, in Ultima Aetas: Studies in Honour of J. den Boeft, ed. C. Kroon and D. den Hengst, (2000), 125–35. J. W.  Drijvers idem , Cyril of Jerusalem: Bishop and city (2004). (for the wider background) S.  Janeras, Le vendredi saint dans la tradition liturgique byzantine (Studia Anselmiana 99; 1988), 235–77. (on hymns attributed to Cyril) P.  Wainwright, ‘The authenticity of the recently discovered Letter attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem’, <abbr>VC</abbr> 40 (1986), 286–93.
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