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Shenoute of Atripe
c. 348 – c. 466 · b. Shenalolet
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Quick facts
- Born
- c. 348, Shenalolet
- Died
- c. 466, White Monastery, Atripe
- Region
- egypt
- Era
- post nicene
- Significance
- Major Father(3/4)
- Also known as
- Shenoute the Great · Shenouda · Sinuthius
Highlights
- Main contribution
- Coptic abbot of the White Monastery near Atripe (Sohag) in Upper Egypt for some eight decades, the most prolific writer in the Coptic language and arguably the most important figure of nati...
- Primary source
- Besa, Vita Sinuthii
Coptic abbot of the White Monastery near Atripe (Sohag) in Upper Egypt for some eight decades, the most prolific writer in the Coptic language and arguably the most important figure of native Egyptian Christianity in late antiquity. He authored a vast corpus of sermons, letters, and rules (the Canons), reformed cenobitic discipline beyond the Pachomian model, attacked surviving paganism in the Thebaid, and accompanied Cyril of Alexandria to the Council of Ephesus in 431. Largely absent from Greek and Latin patrologies, his Coptic Sahidic corpus is now central to the study of late-antique monasticism.
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Common questions
- Who was Shenoute of Atripe?
- Shenoute of Atripe (348–466) — Coptic abbot of the White Monastery near Atripe (Sohag) in Upper Egypt for some eight decades, the most prolific writer in the Coptic language and arguably the most important figure of native Egyptian Christianity in late antiquity. He authored a vast corpus of sermons, letters, and rules (the Canons), reformed cenobitic discipline beyond the Pachomian model, attacked surviving paganism in the Thebaid, and accompanied Cyril of Alexandria to the Council of Ephesus in 431. Largely absent from Greek and Latin patrologies, his Coptic Sahidic corpus is now central to the study of late-antique monasticism.
- Who did Shenoute of Atripe meet?
- Cyril of Alexandria.
Sources for biography
- Besa, Vita Sinuthii primary
- Shenoute, Canons (Coptic) primary
- Shenoute, Discourses (Coptic) primary
- ODCC s.v. Shenoute (Shenute, Sinuthius), St secondary
tradition connections(1)
- Besa's Vita Sinuthii reports Shenoute accompanying Cyril to the Council of Ephesus in 431; this is attested in the hagiographic tradition rather than in conciliar acta.Besa, Vita Sinuthii · ODCC s.v. Shenoute