Marcus Diadochus (

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: Mάρκος ὁ διάδοχος) was a Christian writer of the fourth century. His name is at the head of a "Sermon against the Arians" (Greek τοῦ μακαρἰoυ Mάρκου τοῦ Διάδοχου κατὰ Ἀρειανῶν λόγος, Latin Beati Marci Diadochi Sermo contra Arianos). It was discovered by Johann Rudolf Wettstein in a manuscript

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of St. Athanasius at

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and published by him at the end of his edition of

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. Another version of the same work was lent by Galliciolli to Andrea Gallandi and published in the ''Veterum Patrum Bibliotheca'', V (Venice, 1765–1781). This is the text in ''

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''. The sermon quotes and expounds the usual biblical texts, and answers difficulties. Diadochus, Bishop of Photike in Epirus in the fifth century, is a different person, author of a "Sermon on the Ascension" and of a hundred "Chapters on Spiritual Perfection"; whom

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praises in the prologue of his history of the Vandal persecution. Ruinart's edition, Paris, 1694, not. 3. The two are often confused, as

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does.

References

* ''

'' LXV. 1141–1212; * Jungmann-Fessler, ''Institutiones Patrologiae'' (Innsbruck, 1896), IIb, 147–148; * Ulysse Chevalier ''Bio-Bibliographie'', s.v.

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