Ammon, bishop of Elearchia

4th and 5th-century Bishop of Elearchia

Ammon (Greek Ἄμμων) was a bishop of Elearchia, in Thebaid, in the 4th and 5th centuries. To him is addressed the canonical epistle of Theophilus of Alexandria.[1] Papebrochius published in a Latin version his Epistle to Theophilus, De Vita et Conversalione SS. Pachomii et Theodori.[2] It contains an Epistle of St. Antony.[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ ap. Synodicon Beveregii, vol. i. pt. 1, p. 170
2. ^ ap. Bolland. Ada Sanctorum, vol. xiv. p. 347, &c.
3. ^ Christie, Albany James (1867). "Ammon". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1\. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 145.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Ammon". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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