Righteous
Righteous Apollinaris Of Laodicea
ок. 310 — 390 (не канонизирован)
The card appears to be a mistaken inclusion: Apollinaris of Laodicea was Bishop of Laodicea in Syria (ca. 310–390), a prominent theologian and opponent of Arianism, but a heresiarch whose teaching (Apollinarianism) was condemned as heresy by the Roman Councils of 376–382 and the Second Ecumenical Council (381); he is not glorified by the Church as a saint.
EDITORIAL NOTE: Apollinaris was Bishop of Laodicea in Syria, one of the fierce opponents of Arianism, close to St. Athanasius of Alexandria and St. Basil the Great. However, his Christological teaching (Apollinarianism, which denied the fullness of Christ's human nature — the absence in Him of a human mind/spirit) was recognized as heresy already during his lifetime and condemned by the Roman Councils of 376, 377, and 382, as well as by the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople in 381. Apollinaris is mentioned in the 11th anathema of the Fifth Ecumenical Council among the condemned heretics. He is therefore NOT glorified by the Orthodox Church as a saint. The card's sole image — a mosaic from the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe (Ravenna) inscribed "SANCTVS APOLE[NARIS]" — actually depicts an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT person: Hieromartyr Apollinaris of Ravenna, the first Bishop of Ravenna and a martyr (a genuine saint of the Orthodox Church, commemorated July 23/August 5), not the Laodicean heretic. The card may have arisen from a mistaken conflation of these two different 4th-century Apollinarises.
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