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The Ecole Glossary - English
URL: http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/irenaeus.html

St. Irenaeus (c 130-202 CE) was the most important theologian of the second century. In his youth, Irenaeus knew Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. Pothinus, first Bishop of Lyons, asked Irenaeus to become a presbyter at the Church of Lyons. During peace missions to Rome, Irenaeus strongly opposed Gnosticism and urged Victor I to maintain peace with Asia Minor concerning a controversy over the correct date of Easter.

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Biography: Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, theologian (28 Jun 202) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/06/28.html

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Irenaeus (pronounced ear-a-NAY-us) was probably born around 125. As a young man in Smyrna (near Ephesus, in what is now western Turkey) he heard the preaching of Polycarp, who as a young man had heard the preaching of the Apostle John. Afterward, probably while still a young man, Polycarp moved west to Lyons in southern France. In 177, Pothinus, the bishop of Lyons, sent him on a mission to Rome.

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Irenaeus, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/ir/Irenaeus.html

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c.125–c.202, Greek theologian, bishop of Lyons, and Father of the Church. Born in Asia Minor, he was a disciple of St. Polycarp. Irenaeus went to Rome to plead for leniency toward the Montanists (see Montanism) and for those Eastern Christians who were threatened with excommunication because they did not observe the Roman date for Easter.

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I - English
URL: http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-58.htm

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Against Heresies.

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I - English
URL: http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-64.htm

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Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus.

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St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Adversus Haereses - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm

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Detection and Overthrow of the Gnosis Falsely So-Called.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Irenaeus - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08130b.htm

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Information as to his life is scarce, and in some measure inexact. He was born in Proconsular Asia, or at least in some province bordering thereon, in the first half of the second century; the exact date is controverted, between the years 115 and 125, according to some, or, according to others, between 130 and 142.

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