Eros of Antioch was Bishop and Patriarch of Antioch from about 154 AD until c. 169 AD.[1] Eusebius puts his reign from the fifth year of Antoninus Pius[2] and his successor Theophilus of Antioch as dating from the ninth year of Marcus Aurelius. Jerome says his rule began in 142 AD[3] though this is doubted.[4]
We know nothing of his bishopric,[5] though his was a time of great persecution of the church generally.[6]
References
edit- ^ Patriarchs of Antioch.
- ^ Eusebius, Hist Ecc.4.20.I.
- ^ Jerome, Chron, 199.
- ^ St. Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch, Confessor.
- ^ [The Rulers of the Church of Antioch].
- ^ Glanville Downey, History of Antioch (Princeton University Press, 2015) p. 300.