Serapion the Bishop

Serapion, who was ordained bishop of Antioch in the eleventh year of the emperor Commodus, wrote a letter to Caricus and Pontius on the heresy of Montanus, in which he said: “So that you may know, moreover, that the madness of this false teaching, that is, the teaching of a new prophecy, is rejected by the whole world, I have sent you the letters of the most holy Apollinaris, bishop of Hierapolis in Asia.” He also wrote a volume to Domnus, who had gone over to the Jews in a time of persecution, and another work on the gospel that goes under the name of Peter, addressed to the church of Rhossus in Cilicia, which had turned aside to heresy through reading that book. Here and there short letters of his are found as well, in keeping with the ascetic life of their author. [a]