Beronicianus
Beronicianus (Ancient Greek: Βερονικιανός) is the name of several people of late antiquity.
The name is fairly obscure. It could be a variant name for the (somewhat more common) Berenicianus, but it could also be the male Greek version of the Christian name Veronica that appears in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus.[1]
Beronicianus of Sardis
[edit]Beronicianus of Sardis was a philosopher of considerable reputation, who lived until at least the end of the 4th century CE.[2]
Almost everything we know about him comes from the late 4th/early 5th century historian Eunapius, who wrote a biographical sketch of Beronicianus in his work The Lives of Philosophers and Sophists, though his treatment is brief.[2][3] Of Beronicianus's time we know only that he was alive at the time Eunapius finished writing his book, at the end of the 4th century CE.[1]
Beronicianus, bishop of Tyre
[edit]There was also a man named Beronicianus who was bishop of Tyre in the 5th century CE.
He was appointed by Cyril of Alexandria at the Council of Ephesus, in 431 CE, at which he also served as secretary.[4][5] He asked Cyril to write a letter to the Oriental bishops, urging them to anathematize the controversial prelate Nestorius.[6][7][8][9]
Flavius Leontius Beronicianus
[edit]This Beronicianus is mentioned in a 4th or 5th century CE papyrus from Hermopolis as being praeses, or governor, of the Thebaid.[10] The papyrus contains a fairly detailed anecdote of him presiding as judge over a criminal case of robbery with violence.[11]
Beronicianus, governor of Caria
[edit]Another Beronicianus was, around the same time as the above, said to have been the praeses of Caria. Nothing further is known of him.[12]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Ilan, Tal (1992). "Julia Crispina, Daughter of Berenicianus, a Herodian Princess in the Babatha Archive: A Case Study in Historical Identification". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 82 (3/4). University of Pennsylvania Press: 361–81. JSTOR 1454863. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
- 1 2 Eunapius, The Lives of Philosophers and Sophists sub fin.
- ↑ Watts, Edward (2005). "Orality and Communal Identity in Eunapius' 'Lives of the Sophists and Philosophers'". Byzantion. 75. Peeters Publishers: 337. JSTOR 44173004. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
- ↑ Denny, Edward (1912). Papalism: A Treatise on the Claims of the Papacy as Set Forth in the Encyclical Satis Cognitum. Rivingtons. p. 197. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
- ↑ von Hefele, Karl Josef (1883). A History of the Councils of the Church, from the Original Documents. T. & T. Clark. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
- ↑ Étienne Baluze, Nova Collectio Conciliorum p. 889
- ↑ Cyril of Alexandria, Epistula ad Aristolaum
- ↑ Cote, Wolfred Nelson (1876). The Archaeology of Baptism. Yates and Alexander. p. 329. ISBN 9780524074077. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ↑ Bright, William (1903). "The End of the Nestorian Controversy". The Age of the Fathers: Being Chapters in the History of the Church During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries. Vol. 2. Longmans, Green. p. 389. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
- ↑ Kenyon, F.G. (1903). "Graeco-Roman Egypt". Archaeological Report (later renamed the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology). Egypt Exploration Society: 66. JSTOR 41932219. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
- ↑ Manning, J. G.; Keenan, James G.; Yiftach-Firanko, Uri, eds. (2014). "Bilingual report of judicial proceedings". Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139867245. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
- ↑ Roueché, Charlotte; Reynolds, Joyce Maire, eds. (1989). Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: The Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions Including Texts from the Excavations at Aphrodisias Conducted by Kenan T. Erim. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. pp. 61–67. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Beronicianus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 484.