Ammon, bishop of Elearchia

4th and 5th-century Bishop of Elearchia
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Intro4th and 5th-century Bishop of Elearchia
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Ammon (Greek Ἄμμων) was a bishop of Elearchia, in the Thebaïde, in the 4th and 5th centuries. To him is addressed the canonical epistle of Theophilus of Alexandria. Papebrochius published in a Latin version his Epistle to Theophilus, De Vita et Conversalione SS. Pachomii et Theodori. It contains an Epistle of St. Antony.

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