Sipriani mfiadini

Sipriani (kwa Kilatini: Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus; 210 hivi - 14 Septemba 258) alikuwa askofu wa Karthago na mwandishi muhimu kati ya Mababu wa Kanisa, ambaye vitabu vyake vya Kilatini viko hadi leo https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/24550. 

Anaheshimiwa na Kanisa Katoliki, Waorthodoksi na Waorthodoksi wa Mashariki kama mtakatifu mfiadini.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 16 SeptembaMartyrologium Romanum pamoja na Papa Korneliohttps://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/24500 kwa kuwa waliungana kushuhudia upendo kwa ukweli ule ambao haukubali kuyumbishwa na ambao wao waliuungama mbele ya Kanisa la Mungu na ulimwengu nyakati za dhuluma https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/97418.

Maisha
Alizaliwa mwanzoni mwa karne ya 3 katika eneo la Afrika kaskazini, labda huko Karthago, alipopata elimu na kuwa mhubiri maarufu. 

Baada ya kuongokea Ukristo kwa msaada wa padri Sesili (245), alipata mapema kuwa shemasi, padri akachaguliwa kuwa askofu mwaka 249 na hatimaye akafia dini.

Maandishi yake
Yanapatikana katika magombo 3 na 4 ya Patrologia Latina.

Kitabu chake muhimu zaidi ni "De unitate ecclesiae" (Umoja wa Kanisa). Humo aliandika: "Hawezi kuwa na Mungu kama Baba yule asiye na Kanisa kama mama; . . . asiyekusanya katika Kanisa analitawanya Kanisa la Kristo" (vi.); "Hakuna nyumba nyingine kwa waamini isipokuwa Kanisa pekee" (ix.). 

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko
Mababu wa Kanisa

Marejeo

Marejeo ya Kiswahili
 Masomo ya Breviari - Sikukuu za Bwana, za Bikira Maria na za Watakatifu - Ndanda Mission Press 1978, uk 331-336
 John Kabeya na wengine - Maisha ya Watakatifu – ed. T.M.P. Book Department – Tabora 1965, 1989, uk. 322-323
 Pd. Leandry Kimario, O.F.M.Cap. - Mfahamu Mtakatifu Somo Wako - Maisha ya Watakatifu wa Kila Siku pamoja na Watakatifu Wafransisko - Toleo la pili - Dar es Salaam 2021, uk. 278-279
 Maurice Soseleje, Kalendari yetu – Maisha ya Watakatifu – Toleo la pili – ed. Benedictine Publications Ndanda Peramiho – Peramiho 1986 – ISBN 9976-63-112-X, uk. 70-71

 Marejeo ya lugha nyingine
Brent, Allen, editor and translator, "St Cyprian of Carthage: Selected Treatises," St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2007, ISBN 0-88141-312-7
Brent, Allen, editor and translator, "St Cyprian of Carthage: Selected Letters," St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2007, ISBN 0-88141-313-5
Daniel, Robin, "This Holy Seed: Faith, Hope and Love in the Early Churches of North Africa," (Chester, Tamarisk Publications, 2010: from www.opaltrust.org) ISBN 095385634
Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Cyprian texts
J.M. Tebes, "Cyprian of Carthage: Christianity and Social World in the 3rd. century", Cuadernos de Teología 19, (2000) 

Viungo vya nje
Cyprian and Roman Carthage  by Allen Brent(Cambridge, 2010).
Pontius the Deacon (Pontius Diaconis), "The Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr"
"The Plague of AD 251" 
Cyprian on the nature of the Church and Papacy by Dom John Chapman 
Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Cyprian
Works by Cyprian at the IntraText Digital Library, with concordance and frequency lists
Acta proconsularia S. Cypriani
Multilanguage Opera Omnia

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Category:Waliofariki 258
Category:Mababu wa Kanisa
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