Serapion is a given name, a variant of Seraphin. People called Serapion: *

Serapion of Alexandria Serapion of Alexandria () was a physician who lived in the 3rd century BC. He belonged to the Empiric school, and so much extended and improved the system of Philinus of Cos, that the creation of the school is attributed to him by some ancient wri ...

(3rd century BC), Greek physician *

Serapion (strategos) Serapion (possibly died 41 BC) was strategos of Cyprus and an admiral of the Ptolemaic navy during the reign of Cleopatra VII in 43 BC. Against the intention of the Egyptian queen, he supported in the Roman civil war Gaius Cassius Longinus, ...

, probably negotiated in 48 BC for Caesar with Achillas, strategos of Cyprus in 43 BC, executed in 41 BC *

Mara bar Serapion Mara bar Serapion (), or "Mara son of Serapion", was a Syriac Stoic philosopher in the Roman province of Syria. He is only known from a letter he wrote in Aramaic to his son, who was named Serapion,''The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Int ...

(1st century AD), Syrian stoic * Serpion of Macedonia (d. 195), martyr *

Serapion of Antioch Serapion of Antioch was a Patriarch of Antioch ( Greek: Σεραπίων; 191–211). He is known primarily through his theological writings, although all but a few fragments of his works have perished. His feast day is celebrated on 30 October. ...

(c. 200 AD), Patriarch of Antioch *Serapion (3rd century AD), neoplatonic philosopher, one of the

disciples of Plotinus The following is a list of students of Plotinus. The philosopher Plotinus was the founder of a tradition later known as Neoplatonism. Porphyry Porphyry, the most important of Plotinus's pupils, was born in Tyre (Lebanon), Tyre c. 233. He was ta ...

*Serapion (4th century AD), author of the ''

Sacramentary of Serapion of Thmuis The ''Sacramentary'' of Serapion of Thmuis is a work of Saint Serapion (fl. ca. 330 to 360, feast day: March 21), bishop of Thmuis (today Tell el-Timai) in the Nile Delta and a prominent supporter of Athanasius in the struggle against Arianism ...

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Serapion the Sindonite Serapion the Sindonite was a Christian monk from Egypt who is considered a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. His feast day is on 7 April. Life Serapion was an Egyptian monk who was noted for his severely asceti ...

(4th century AD), Egyptian monk and saint *

Yahya ibn Sarafyun Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century) a Syriac physician from Damascus, known in Europe as Johannes Serapion, and commonly called Serapion the Elder to distinguish him from Serapion the Younger, with whom he was often confused. Biography Nothing is ...

(9th century), also known as Serapion the Elder or Johannes Serapion, Christian physician who wrote two medical compilations in Syriac *

Serapion of Algiers Serapion of Algiers (1179 – 14 November 1240) was an English Catholic Mercedarian priest and martyr. Thomas O'Loughlin says Serapion was Scottish by birth. Serapion is acknowledged as a proto-martyr. He was the first of his Order to merit th ...

(1179–1240), Mercedarian saint *

Serapion the Younger Serapion the Younger wrote a medicinal-botany book titled ''The Book of Simple Medicaments''. The book is dated to the 12th or 13th century. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from Serapion the Elder, aka Yahya ibn Sarafyun, an earlier ...

(c. 12th century), physician who wrote ''The Book of Simple Medicine'' (in Arabic) *

Serapion of Vladimir Blessed Serapion of Vladimir (d. 1275) was a bishop of Vladimir. He was Archimandrite of the Kiev Monastery of the Caves from 1247 until 1274, and was bishop of the diocese of Vladimir, Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod from 1274 until his death the fol ...

(13th century), bishop of Vladimir * Serapion of Novgorod (d. 1516), Russian archbishop *

Serapion (Coptic bishop of Los Angeles) HE Metropolitan Serapion () is the first hierarch and bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California, and Hawaii. He was born in Assiut, Kingdom of Egypt. Following his graduation from the Faculty of Medicine at Assiut ...

(b. 1951) * Serapion Kolosnitsin (1964–2025), Russian Orthodox archbishop of Kokshetau and Akmola

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