Marcus Diadochus

Marcus Diadochus (Markos ho diadochos) was a Christian writer of the fourth century. Nothing is known of him but his name at the head of a "Sermon against the Arians", discovered by Wetsten in a manuscript codex of St. Athanasius at Basle and published by him at the end of his edition of Origen^[1] Another version of the same work was lent by Galliciollus to Galland and published in the "Veterum Patrum Bibliotheca", V (Venice, 1765-1781). This is the text in Patrologia Graeca^[2] The sermon quotes and expounds the usual texts,^[3] and answers difficulties.^[4]

A quite different person is Diadochus, Bishop of Photike in Epirus in the fifth century, author of a "Sermon on the Ascension" and of a hundred "Chapters on Spiritual Perfection",^[5] whom Victor Vitensis praises in the prologue of his history of the Vandal persecution.^[6] The two are often confounded, as Migne does.

References

• Patrologia Graeca LXV. 1141-1212;
• JUNGMANN-FESSLER, Institutiones Patrologiae (Innsbruck, 1896), IIb, 147-148;
• CHEVALIER, bio-Bibl., s.v.

Notes

1. "De oratione" (Basle, 1694).
2. LXV, 1149-1166.
3. John, i, 1; Heb., i, 3; Ps. cix, 3-4; John, xiv, 6, 23, etc.
4. From Mark, xiii, 32; x, 10; Matt., xx, 23 etc.
5. P.G., LXV, 1141-1148, 1167-1212.
6. Ruinart's edition, Paris, 1694, not. 3.

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia article

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.