The Ante-Nicene Church · AD 180–313

Domninus

fl. c. AD 200 (death unrecorded) · Lapsed Christian · Addressee of Serapion of Antioch · Antioch

The Ante-Nicene Church

Who Domninus was

A Christian who left the church for Jewish observance in a time of persecution, and to whom Serapion of Antioch addressed a treatise trying to bring him back. He is a rare thing in the archive: a named apostate rather than a martyr, a heretic or a schismatic — a category the corpus holds almost nothing in.

Verified single attestation

Named once in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History; no other ancient source names him.

Common questions

When was Domninus active?

Domninus is dated fl. c. AD 200 (death unrecorded) in the archive, which places Domninus in the Ante-Nicene Church (AD 180–313). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

Which early sources mention Domninus?

Domninus is named in 1 primary-source passage catalogued here, drawn from Eusebius of Caesarea. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Domninus from?

The archive associates Domninus with Antioch.

Who were Domninus’ contemporaries?

The archive links Domninus to 2 other figures, including Serapion of Antioch and Caricus. Each connection is drawn from a source that places them together, not from inference.

Primary-source mentions (1)

Every passage below is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Ecclesiastical History VI.12.1

c. AD 325
[Serapion of Antioch wrote to Domninus, who had fallen away in the time of persecution from faith in Christ to the Jewish will-worship.]
Eusebius of Caesarea · Ecclesiastical History VI.12.1 · source text

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The one place the sources put Domninus.

  1. 1Antioch

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