Pierius the Presbyter

Pierius, presbyter of the church at Alexandria in the reign of Carus and Diocletian, at the time when Theonas was ruling as bishop in that same church, taught the people with great success. He reached such elegance of language, and published so many treatises on all kinds of subjects, which still survive, that he was called Origen the Younger. He was remarkable for his self-discipline, devoted to voluntary poverty, and thoroughly skilled in the art of dialectic. After the persecution he spent the rest of his life at Rome. A long treatise of his On the Prophet Hosea survives, which, from what it says itself, appears to have been delivered on the vigil of the Passover. [a]