Serapion

Serapion (pron.: /səˈreɪpiən/) can refer to:

Physicians

• Serapion of Alexandria (3rd century BC), Greek physician
• Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), also known as Serapion the Elder or Johannes Serapion, Christian physician who wrote two medical compilations in Syriac
• Serapion the Younger (c. 12th century), physician who wrote The Book of Simple Medicine (in Arabic)

Christianity

• Bar-Serapion, Syrian stoicist.
• Saint Serapion of Macedonia (d. 195), Martyr
• Serapion of Antioch (c. 200 AD), Patriarch of Antioch
• Saint Serapion of Thmuis (4th century)
• Saint Serapion of Algiers (1179 – 1240), Mercedarian saint
• Saint Serapion (Archbishop of Novgorod) (?-1516)
• Bishop Serapion (1951-) of Los Angeles of the Coptic Orthodox Church

Other

• Serapion, probably negotiated in 48 BC for Caesar with Achillas, strategos of Cyprus in 43 BC, executed in 41 BC
• Serapion (Disciple of Plotinus) was a 3rd century neoplatonic philosopher and student of Plotinus
• Saint Serapion (Zurbarán) an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Zurbarán.
• Serapion Brothers, a literary movement in the early Soviet Union
• Sarapion, ancient port city on the Somali Peninsula