Diodorus
16. Surnamed TRYPHON, lived about A. D. 278, and is described by Epiphanius (de lens. ac Pond. 20) as a good man and of wonderful piety. He was presbyter in the village of Diodoris and a friend of bishop Archelaus. When Manes took refuge in his house, he was at first kindly received; but when Diodorus was informed, by a letter of Archelaus, of the heresies of Manes, and when he began to see through the cunning of the heretic, he had a disputation with him, in which he is said triumphantly to have refuted his errors. (Phot. Bibl. Cod. 85.)
Works
Letter of Archelaus to Diodorus
A letter of Archelaus to Diodorus is still extant, and printed in Valesius's edition of Socrates, p. 200.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.