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Cyprian of Carthage

Western Church Fatherc. 210–258 ADPatristic

Bishop of Carthage and martyr whose writings on church unity, the lapsed, and baptism shaped ecclesiology. His treatise On the Unity of the Church remains a landmark text on the nature of the visible church.

Key Works

  • On the Unity of the Church
  • On the Lapsed
  • Letters

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