Editing Cyril of Jerusalem (section)

==Life and character==
Little is known of his life before he became a bishop; the assignment of his birth to the year 315 rests on conjecture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/newschaffherzog29haucgoog|title=The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical ...|first=Philip Schaff|last=Johann Jakob Herzog |date=18 March 1909|publisher=Funk and Wagnalls Company|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> According to Butler, Cyril was born at or near the city of Jerusalem and was well-read in both the writings of the early [[Church Fathers|Christian theologians]] and the [[Greek philosophers]].<ref name="butler">{{Cite book|last=Butler, Alban (1866) Vol. III, D. & J. Sadlier, & Company|title=The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints'|year=1866|publisher=J. Duffy|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001941109/Home|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213948/https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001941109/Home |archive-date=2 June 2021 }}</ref>

Cyril was ordained a [[deacon]] by Bishop [[Macarius of Jerusalem]] in about 335 AD and a priest some eight years later by Bishop [[Maximus of Jerusalem|Maximus]]. Around the end of 350 AD, he succeeded Maximus in the See of Jerusalem, although the evidence for this relies on the ''Catecheses'' written by Cyril where he refers to himself as "bishop". [[Jerome]] also suggests Cyril was an [[Arian]] at this stage.<ref name = "laielh">*"Lives of the Saints, For Every Day of the Year" edited by Rev. Hugo Hoever, S.O.Cist., PhD, New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1955, p. 112.</ref><ref>a.</ref><ref>Jerome gives a dark account of this appointment, claiming that Cyril was an [[Arian]], and "was offered the see on Maximus' death on the condition that he would repudiate his ordination at the hands of that Bishop".(Yarnold (2000), p4) Jerome had personal reasons for being malicious, though, and, the story may simply be a case of Cyril conforming to proper church order. Young (2004), p186.</ref>

Cyril is described as a preacher and liturgist by the pilgrim [[Egeria (pilgrim)|Egeria]].<ref>John Wilkinson: Egeria's Travels. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-85668-710-5}}</ref>