Hypatios of Ephesus

Hypatios of Ephesus († between 537 and 552) was Bishop of Ephesus at the latest from 531 to after 536.

In 531 he led a meeting which, on behalf of Emperor Justinian , spoke out against the theology of the Monophysites . In 536 he was the spokesman for the Orthodox bishops at the Synod of Constantinople. He also spoke out in favor of the theopaschitic formula ( Unus ex trinitate passus est ; One from the Trinity has suffered ). This was supported in 533 by Pope John II .

Works

• (presumably) commentary on psalms
• (presumably) commentary on the twelve minor prophets
• (today judged to be unlikely) Commentary on the Gospel of Luke

literature

• Franz Diekamp (Ed.): Analecta Patristica. Texts and treatises on Greek patristics . Pont. Inst.Orientalium Studiorum, Rome 1938, ( Orientalia Christiana analecta 117).
• Paul J. Alexander: Hypatios of Ephesus. A note on image worship in the sixth century . In: Harvard Theological Review 45, 1952, ISSN  0017-8160 , pp. 177-184.
• Jean Gouillard: Hypatios d'Ephese ou Du Pseudo-Denys a Theodore Studite . In: Revue des Etudes Byzantines 19, 1961, ISSN  0766-5598 , pp. 63-75.
• Stephen Gero: Hypatius of Ephesus on the Cult of Images . In: Jacob Neusner (Ed.): Christianity, Judaism, and Other Greco-Roman Cults. Studies for Morton Smith at Sixty . Volume 2. Brill, Leiden 1975, ISBN 90-04-04215-6 , pp. 208-216.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hypatios of Ephesus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1233.