Severus of Antioch

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Severus, Patriarch of Antioch (512-518), born approximately 465 in Sozopolis in Pisidia, was by birth and education a pagan, who was baptized in the "precinct of the divine martyr Leontius" at Tripoli, Lebanon.

He almost at once openly united himself with the Acephali, repudiating his own baptism and his baptizer, and even the Christian church itself as infected with Nestorianism (Labbe, u.s.).

Upon embracing Non-Chalcedonian doctrines, he entered a monastery apparently belonging to that sect between Gaza and its port Majuma.

Here he met Peter the Iberian, who had been ordained bishop of Gaza by Theodosius, the Non-Chalcedonian monk, during his usurpation of the patriarch of Jerusalem.