Eros of Antioch was Bishop and Patriarch of Antioch from about 154 AD until 169 AD.Patriarchs of Antioch. Eusebius puts his reign from the fifth year of Antoninus PiusEusebius, Hist Ecc.4.20.I. and his successor Theophilus of Antioch as dating from the ninth year of Marcus Aurelius. Jerome says his rule began in 142 ADJerome, Chron, 199. though this is doubted. St. Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch, Confessor.
We know nothing of his bishopric,[The Rulers of the Church of Antioch]. though his was a time of great persecution of the church generally.Glanville Downey, History of Antioch (Princeton University Press, 2015) p. 300.
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