Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Theosebas, a deacon
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Theosebas, a deacon of the Thirian (? Tyrian) church, ordained priest
by bp. John of Jerusalem. Jerome takes this ordination as a justification of the
ordination of his brother Paulinian by Epiphanius, bp. of Salamis. He describes
Theosebas as an eloquent man, and believes John to have ordained him in order to
employ him to speak against himself and his friends (Hieron. Cont. Joan. Hierosol.
41).
[W.H.F.]