Saint Severian or Severianus (died in late 452 or early 453; officially on 21 February 453) was bishop of
Scythopolis in
Palestine
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He was martyred and is considered a saint.
His feast day is 21 February.
Life
Scythopolis was made the capital of the new province of ''
Palaestina Secunda'' around 400 by the emperor
Theodosius II.
The relationship between the bishop of Scythopolis and the
metropolitan of Caesarea
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was not well defined.
Severianus was appointed bishop of Scythopolis, metropolitan of the province of
Palestine II
Palæstina Secunda or Palaestina II was a Byzantine province from 390, until its conquest by the Muslim armies in 634–636. Palaestina Secunda, a part of the Diocese of the East, roughly comprised the Galilee, Yizrael Valley, Bet Shean Valley ...
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His name is among the signatories to the
Definition of Faith of the
Council of Chalcedon (451), but he probably was not present at the council.
Severianus was killed because he had implemented the Chalcedonian faith among the Christians of Palestine.
He was murdered during the unrest caused by the Definition of the Faith, which stated that the divinity and humanity of Christ were
two distinct but inseparable natures, contradicting the
archimandrite Eutyches.
Butler's account
The hagiographer
Alban Butler wrote in the ''Lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints'' (1821),
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5th-century Byzantine bishops
453 deaths
5th-century Christian martyrs
Palestinian bishops
Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
Ancient Roman murder victims
Ancient Christians involved in controversies