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Seraphs (genus)
A seraph is a celestial being in Jewish and Christian mythology. Seraph(s) or seraphim may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * Seraph (''The Matrix''), a character in ''The Matrix'' film trilogy Games * Seraph, character in the video game '' Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2'' * Seraph, a vehicle in the video game series ''Halo'' * The Seraph, the key to the Tibetan palace containing the Talion in ''Tomb Raider II'' * Seraphim, a faction in the video game expansion pack '' Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance'' Literature and comics * Seraph (comics), a DC Comics superhero * Seraphim, a character in the webcomic ''Megatokyo'' *''Seraphs'', the second novel in the ''Rogue Mage'' series by Faith Hunter * ''Seraph of the End'', manga series written by Takaya Kagami * '' Seraphim: 266613336 Wings'', manga series by Mamoru Oshii and Satoshi Kon Music * Seraph, a member of the band Dark Fortress * Seraphim (band) (), a power metal band from Taiwan * Seraphim Records, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraph
A seraph ( ; pl.: ) is a celestial or heavenly being originating in Ancient Judaism. The term plays a role in subsequent Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Tradition places seraphim in the highest rank in Christian angelology and in the fifth rank of ten in the Jewish angelic hierarchy. A seminal passage in the Book of Isaiah () used the term to describe six-winged beings that fly around the Throne of God crying " holy, holy, holy". This throne scene, with its triple invocation of holiness, profoundly influenced subsequent theology, literature and art. Its influence is frequently seen in works depicting angels, heaven and apotheosis. Seraphim are mentioned as celestial beings in the semi-canonical Book of Enoch and the canonical Book of Revelation. Origins and development In Hebrew, the word ''saraph'' means "burning", and is used seven times throughout the text of the Hebrew Bible as a noun, usually to denote " serpent", twice in the Book of Numbers, once in the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphsidae
Seraphsidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Stromboidea The Stromboidea, originally named the Strombacea by Rafinesque in 1815, is a superfamily of medium-sized to very large sea snails in the clade Littorinimorpha.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through .... Genera There is one extant genus within the family Seraphsidae: * '' Terebellum'' Röding, 1798 All other Seraphsidae genera are known only from the fossil record: * †''Diameza'' Deshayes, 1865 * †''Mauryna'' de Gregorio, 1880 * †''Miniseraphs'' Jung,1974 * †''Paraseraphs'' Jung, 1974 * †''Pseudoterebellum'' Maxwell, Rymer & Congdon, 2021 * † ''Seraphs'' Montfort, 1810 Synonyms for ''Terebellum'' * ''Artopoia'' Gistel, 1848: synonym of ''Terebellum'' Bruguière, 1798 (invalid: unnecessary substitute name for ''Terebellum'') * ''Lucis'' Gistel, 1848: synonym of ''Terebellum'' Bruguière, 1798 * ''Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim Post
Seraphim Fred "Dynamite" Post (August 1, 1904 – August 13, 1975) was an American college football guard who played at Stanford University. He was a consensus All-American in 1928. Early life Seraphim Fred Post was born on August 1, 1904. He was a consensus All-American in 1928. Stanford guard Don Robesky was also a consensus All-American in 1928. Post's Stanford profile states that "Seraphim “Dynamite” Post teamed with Don Robesky to form college football’s most dominating pair of offensive guards." Post was a member of Stanford's 1927 Rose Bowl team. He also earned Associated Press first-team All-PCC honors in both 1927 and 1928. He was later inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame. Later life Post was an administrator at Stanford until retiring in 1969. He lived in Menlo Park, California Menlo Park ( ) is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. It is bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraph Frissell
Seraph Frissell (August 20, 1840 – 1915) was an American physician and medical writer who specialized in diseases of women and children. She was the first woman in Western Massachusetts to be admitted to any district medical society, and the fourth woman to be admitted a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Women were first admitted to medical societies in Massachusetts in 1884; but the Berkshire District Medical Society made Frissell an honorary member in 1877, and she attended its monthly meetings, receiving notices as a regular member. Early life and education Birth and ancestry Seraph Frissell was born in Peru, Massachusetts, on August 20, 1840, the daughter of Augustus Caæsar and Laura Mack (Emmons) Frissell. Her grandparents were Thomas and Hannah (Phillips) Frissell; and Ichabod and Mindwell (Mack) Emmons. Her father and her paternal grandfather had both served as captains in the state militia. William Frissell, her great-grandfather, was a commissioned officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraph Young Ford
Seraph Young Ford (November 6, 1846June 22, 1938) was the first woman to cast a ballot under a law that made women citizens' voting rights equal to men's in the United States. She voted in Salt Lake City's municipal election on February 14, 1870, becoming the first woman to vote after the Utah Territory passed a women's equal suffrage law, just two days prior. Biography Seraph Cedenia Young was born on November 6, 1846, to Cedenia Clark and Brigham Hamilton Young in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. The Young family migrated to the Great Basin the next year along with other Mormon refugees, arriving in October 1847 and settling in Salt Lake City. Young, grandniece of Brigham Young, was the oldest of nine children and eventually became a teacher at the model school at the University of Deseret. She was twenty-three years old and teaching at the university at the time of her historic vote. Utah's territorial legislature unanimously passed a law extending voting rights to women citizens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim Storheim
Monk Seraphim (born Kenneth William Storheim) is a defrocked hierarch for the Orthodox Church in America. During 1990–2010 he served as head of the Orthodox Church in America Archdiocese of Canada, Archdiocese of Canada with the title Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada Life Kenneth William Storheim was born in Edmonton, Alberta of Norwegian Canadians, Norwegian and Scottish Canadians, Scottish ancestry, and was raised as a Lutheran. Receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta, Storheim also studied at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia and was ordained as an Anglican priest. He converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in 1978, taking the name of Saint Seraphim of Sarov. He then attended St. Vladimir's Seminary in Crestwood, New York, where he was ordained in 1981. Storheim lived at New Valamo Monastery in Finland and spent several years serving as an OCA parish priest throughout Canada and the United States. He was consecrated as auxiliar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim Rose
Seraphim Rose (born Eugene Dennis Rose; August 13, 1934 – September 2, 1982), also known as Seraphim of Platina, was an American priest and hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who co-founded the Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California. He translated Eastern Orthodox Christian texts and authored several works. His writings have been credited with helping to spread Eastern Orthodox Christianity throughout the West; his popularity equally extended to Russia itself, where his works were secretly reproduced and distributed by ''samizdat'' during the Communist era, remaining popular today. Rose's opposition to Eastern Orthodox participation in the ecumenical movement and his advocacy of the contentious " toll house teaching" led him into conflict with some notable figures in 20th-century Orthodoxy and he remains controversial in some quarters even after his sudden death from an undiagnosed intestinal disorder in 1982. Though he has not been formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim Papakostas
Archimandrite Seraphim Papakostas (1892 – 1954) was the Superior of the Zoe Brotherhood movement in Greece from 1927–1954. Zoe was founded in 1907 by Archimandrite Eusebius Matthopoulos (1849–1929), an earlier follower and collaborator of Apostolos Makrakis, as an extra-ecclesiastical, semi-monastic organization patterned on religious orders in the West. Life and authorship Archimandrite Seraphim (Papakostas) was born in a mountain village of central Greece in 1892, and died in Athens in 1954. He studied theology at the University of Athens, thereafter serving as a high school teacher for two years, and later as a preacher at the Cathedral of Athens. Father Seraphim passed the last twenty-five years of his life in the capacity of Superior of the "ZOE" Brotherhood of Theologians, which was established by his predecessor, Archimandrite Eusebius Matthopoulos. As Superior of "ZOE", Father Seraphim Papacostas developed all of the groups under the Brotherhood, contributing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim Nikitin
Metropolitan Seraphim (; born Vladimir Mironovich Nikitin, ; 2 July 1905 - 22 April 1979) was a Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna. Biography Born in St. Petersburg in the family servant. In 1928 he graduated from the State Institute of Architecture. During World War II he served in the Soviet Army. In November 1951 he was ordained deacon and then priest in the appointment of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Leningrad. As a member of the building committee of the Leningrad diocese. In 1958 he graduated from the correspondence section of the Leningrad Theological Academy with the title of Candidate of Theology. On 26 June 1962 he was tonsured a monk with the name Seraphim in the Pskov-Caves Monastery, and on July 1 of the same year was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite. From 8 to 27 February 1968 he served as temporary administrator of the diocese of Voronezh The Diocese of Voronezh () is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim Glushakov
Seraphim, born Fyodor Mikhailovich Glushakov (19 March 1969 – 9 June 2020) was a Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, who headed the Diocese of Anadyr' and Chukotka from 2011 to 2015. Biography He was born in 1969 in Karaganda into an Orthodox family, exiled to Kazakhstan during the repressions of the 1930s. In 1986 he graduated from a secondary school and entered the Moscow Theological Seminary. After graduation, he entered the Holy Dormition Pskov-Pechersky Monastery as a novice. In 1992 he graduated from the Kuibyshev State Pedagogical Institute. On February 16, 1992, he was ordained a deacon by Archbishop Proclus of Ulyanovsk and Melekess. On July 5, 1992, he was ordained a presbyter by Archbishop Eusebius of Samara and Syzran and appointed rector of the Resurrection Cathedral under construction in the city of Samara, which was consecrated in 1993. In the 1990s, the Resurrection Cathedral became the first Orthodox church on the working-class outskirts of Samara - Bezy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim De Freitas
Franciscus Serafim de Freitas (also Seraphim or Seraphinus; 8 March 1633) was a Portuguese jurist and canon lawyer. Franciscus Serafim de Freitas was born in Lisbon about 1570. He attended the Jesuit school Colégio de Santo Antão in Lisbon and the University of Coimbra, where he received a doctorate in canon law on 25 October 1595 or 1598. De Freitas taught at the University of Valladolid, where he was the Vespers Professor of Canon Law. In Valladolid, he became a member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. At some point, he became the representative of Portugal's military orders in the kingdom of Castile. He wrote a book called ''De iusto imperio Lusitanorum asiatico'', published in Valladolid in 1624. The book rejects the theories of Hugo Grotius presented in ''Mare Liberum''. Anthony Pagden describes it as a "point-by-point refutation" of ''Mare Liberum''. ''De iusto imperio'' defends the papal donation, two sets of bulls by which Pope Nicholas V, in 1454, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim Chichagov
Seraphim Chichagov (9 June or 9 January 1856 – 11 December 1937), born Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov, was a Metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church who was executed by firing squad, and was canonized by the Church in 1997 as a New Martyr. Born into a military family, he enlisted as an artillery officer after finishing his schooling. Influenced by his experiences in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), Russo-Turkish War and meetings with John of Kronstadt, he resigned from the military and became a clergyman. He retired in 1933 due to age and ill health. Four years later he was arrested and charged with monarchist propaganda. Sentenced to death by firing squad, he was executed on 11 December 1937 at the Butovo firing range. Early life Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov was born on 9 June 1856 in St. Petersburg, Russia to artillery Colonel Mikhail Nikiforovich Chichagov and Maria Nikolaevna. He was born into a minor noble family from the Kostroma area with a strong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
