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Letter of Polycrates to Victor of Rome

Saint Polycrates of Ephesus · c. 190 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Bishop of Ephesus. His Letter to Victor of Rome (preserved by Eusebius) is the chief witness for the Quartodeciman observance of Pascha on the 14th of Nisan in the churches of Asia Minor — a tradition Polycrates traces back to the Apostles Philip and John.

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