Demetrius (VI)

VI. DEMETRIUS, one whom St. Paul mentions as a very virtuous Christian. Some believe him to be the same person, whom we Serar. in 3. Ep Joan.have been just speaking of, and who renounced Heathenism to embrace Christianity. But this opinion wants proof, as well as their conjecture, who make Demetrius a Bishop: I Catharin. Salmeron.say nothing of the chronicle written by the pretended Lucius Dexter, which asserts Demetrius to have been brother to that Caius, to whom St. John addressed his Epistle.

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