Pope Celadion of Alexandria explained

Type:Pope
Honorific-Prefix:Saint
Celadion of Alexandria
Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria
Enthroned:16 January 152
Ended:16 July 166
Predecessor:Markianos
Successor:Agrippinus
Birth Place:Alexandria, Egypt
Death Date:16 July 166
Death Place:Alexandria, Egypt
Buried:Baucalis, Alexandria
Nationality:Egyptian
Religion:Coptic Orthodox Christian
Feast Day:16 July (9 Epip in the Coptic calendar)

Pope Celadion (Keladionus) was the 9th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria. He reigned from the year 152 to 166 AD.

Celadion was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was elected Patriarch in the year 152 AD during the reign of Antoninus Pius.

He reigned for fourteen years, six months, and three days, and died during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, on the 9th of Epip (16 July), in the year 166 AD.[1]

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  1. Web site: Lives of Saints :: Abib 9. CopticChurch.net. 2018-03-14.