DIONYSIUS
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DIONYSUS
icomprebensiblj is the eternal genentSon of Christ I the Father.* Lastly, that this was his constant lion, -which he always held, everywhere preached professed, he affirms in these words : * I have writ- do -wrxite, confess, believe, and preach that Christ o-etema.1 with the Father, the only-begotten Son, IVord of the Father.* Let Sandlos brazen his head, and boast still that the great Dionysios Al- ndrinns was of Arias*s mind.** It was at the close >ionysias's life that the second council was con- ed at Antioch to condemn the heresy of Paul of nosata, and to the fathers of the council Dion3rsius t an ejHBtle, in which he asserts, according to bish- Bull, the true divinity of the Son of God. See £n- iafl,.J7w<. EccUt, vi, 29, 86, 40, 46; vii, 20, 26, 28; I Lardner, CredSnUty^ iii, 67-132, where most of the laining Ihigments are noticed, and many of them nslated. His remains are published separately: era I>ion. Alex, qua supemtnt, Gr. and Lat. (Boms, «, fol.) . They are given also in Galland, BibL Pair, 481 ; in Routh, BeUq. Saeraj vols, ii and iii ; and Migne, PairoUigia Graeca, x, 1287 sq. A special rk on the life and writings of Dionysins has been ittcn by Dittrich (Roman Catholic), DwnysiuM der -osse v€>n AUxandrien (Freiburg, 1867). See Clarke, XX, of Sac, Lit, i, 176 ; Herzog, Real-Encyklopddiey , 41<F; a foil account in Ceillier, ffistoire GMhxUe 9 atUeurs ecelisiasHquet, ii, 896 sq. ; Hefele's .Conci- ngeschichU^ i, 222 sq. ; and Murdoc]c*s excellent note Moaheini, Church Bittory, bk. i, cent, i, pt ii, ch. ii, 7. A translation of the remains of Dionysius is omised in the AnU-Nicene ChruHtm Library, now iblishlng (1868) at Edinburgh. Dioxi3r8iu8, bishop of Corinth, A.D. 170, of whom ttle now is known, appears to have been in consider- >le repute in the days of Eusebins, for eight epistles hich he had written : 1, to the Lcuxdcemonians ; 2, to le Athenians; 8, to the lielievers of Nicomedia, the ipital of Bithynia ; 4, to the Church at Gortyna, and le other churches of Crete ; 6, to the Church in Amcu- V, together with those throughout Pontus ; 6, to the nossians ; 7, to the Romans f and 8, to Chrysophora, an minent Christian matron. These are all lost except few fragments preserved by Eusebius, Hist, EccL iv, 3, and ii, 25. See extracts fh>m these fragments in <ardner, Works (ed. Kippis), ii, 144 sq. The Frag- lenta are given in Gallandii BQtl. Pair, i, 675, and in toutb, Reiiquia Sacra (Oxon. 1814), i, 163 sq. See *'abriciu8, Bibliotheca Graca^ iv, 408; xii, 175 (ed. larles) ; Ceillier, Hist, Gin, d, avleurs sacris (Paris, 865), i, 461.
Dionysins, bishop of Rome, was at first a presby- er of the Church of Rome, and afterwards, on the nartyrdom of Sixtus II (Eusebins, Hist, Eccles, vii, 7, t7), was chosen bishop of that see A.D. 259, which he leld about ten years. He died A.D. 269. Dionysios Uexandrinus (q. v.) was accused before Dionysius of Rome of error as to the person of Christ in his letter to Ammonias and Euphranor, and a synod was called by the bbhop of Rome to consider the matter, and an explanation was made by the bishop of Alexandria. The only fragment we have of the writings of Diony- sius Romanus relates to this matter • it is a letter to the African bishops, of which Athanasius preserves a large part in his Ik Decrei. Synod. Nic. c. 26 ; compare nlso his De Sententia DionysO, c. 13. It is given also in Higne, PatroL Latin, tom. v. See Hefele, Cond" Henyesckichte, i, 222 ; Domer, Doctrine of the Person of Carirt, Edinb. transL ii, 182 sq.
Dionysins Ibdgnns C*the little**)! a Scythian by birth (sixth century), studied at Rome, where he became a monk, and gained high repute by his knowl- ^ge of Scripture and of the Greek language. Cas- siodorus, who was intimate with him, wrote his pane- gyric in his Institttt, Divin. Literartim, ch. xxiii. He ^^Bs a vehement and nnscmpuloaa ** upholder of the
see of Rome ; he is suspected to have been guilty even of forgery in its support; he first published, and very probably wrote the Canons of the Council of Sardica, and collected the papal decretals from Siricius to An astasius II*' (Geddes, TVacts, ii, 419, cited in Clarke, Succession of Sac, Lit, ii, 807). These were published with his CoUection of Canons, made at the request of Stephen, bishop of Salone, which contains the 50 first Apost, Canons (q. v.), the Canons of Nice, Constantino- ple, Chalcedon, Sardica, and 188 of Africa (ed. Jostel- Ins, Paris, 1628, 8vo; also given in Biblioth, Jttr. Ca- non, i, 97). He also wrote a number of translations from Greek writers. But his fame rests (and justly) upon his Cydus Paschalis, in which he introduced the name of Christ as the starting-point of computation, and gave birth to our " Christian s^*' known also as the **Dionysian «ra.** It "was a great thought of the 'little monk* (whether so called from his humil- ity or from his small stature is unknown) to view Christ as the turning-point of the ages, and to intro- duce this view into chronology*' (Schaff, Hist,ofChr, Church, ii, § 67). Dionydus lived to about A.D. 650. His writings are g^en in Bligne, PatroL Lat, vol. Ixvii. See Oudin,/>e Scriptor, Ecd.Antiq, i, 1406 sq. ; SchrOckh, Kirchengeschichtey xvi, 175 ; Cave, Hi^, Lit, (Geneva, 1720), i, 833; Ceillier, Hist, Ginirale des aw teurs saerh (Paris, 1862), xi, 128 ; and arts. Cakon ; Canon Law ; Chbomoloot.