26 September. Bishop Cyprian of Carthage. 1662 Book of Common Prayer
26 September. Bishop Cyprian of Carthage. 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Three things: (1) brief-bio from http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/notes/saints.html#Cyprian (2) a wiki-bio, and (3) at the end, an online resource for Mr. (Bp). Cyprian’s writings in English. From http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/notes/saints.html#Cyprian , we read: St. Cyprian , Archbishop , the great Bishop of Carthage, exercising a kind of metropolitan jurisdiction (from A.D. 248-258). He was of high education and rank, converted in his manhood, and soon after raised to the Episcopate; notable as the great upholder and establisher in the Western Church of Episcopal dignity and authority, in staunch resistance to the growing claims of Rome; stern alike against Puritanism and laxity in the restoration of those who had "lapsed" under persecution; maintaining even the need of rebaptism of those baptized by heretics, which was rigidly opposed by the Bishop of Rome, and disall...