The Writings of Cyprian

Epistles of Cyprian

  1. Epistle 1: Cyprian Explains God's Grace Conferred at Baptism and What the Convert Should Do to Grow in Christ
  2. Epistle 2: Cyprian Explains What to Do in the Case of the Lapsed
  3. Epistle 3: Cyprian Responds to the News of the Death of Crementius
  4. Epistle 4: Cyprian Urges the Elders and Deacons to Maintain Unity and Continue Meeting Needs of Prisoners and the Poor
  5. Epistle 5: Cyprian Directs the Confessors to Listen to the Admonishment of their Elders and Deacons
  6. Epistle 6: Cyprian Urges Rogatianus and Others to Maintain Discipline
  7. Epistle 7: Cyprian urges to Elders and Deacons to Devote Themselves to Prayer
  8. Epistle 8: Cyprian, Commending the African Martyrs Marvellously for Their Constancy, Urges Them to Perseverance by the Example of Their Colleague Mappalicus
  9. Epistle 9: Concerning Certain Presbyters Who Had Rashly Granted Peace to the Lapsed Before the Persecution Had Been Appeased, and Without the Privity of the Bishops
  10. Epistle 10: To the Martyrs and Confessors Who Sought that Peace Should Be Granted to the Lapsed
  11. Epistle 11: Concerning Restoring Those who have Lapsed
  12. Epistle 12: Concerning the Supervision of the Newly Restored and the Learners
  13. Epistle 13: Concerning Those in Haste to be Restored
  14. Epistle 14: Cyprian Explains His Actions to the Elders and Deacons in Rome
  15. Epistle 15: To the Confessors: Encouragement to the Prisoners
  16. Epistle 16: Confessors to Cyprian: A Certificate Written in the Name of the Martyrs by Lucianus
  17. Epistle 17: To Elders and Deacons: No Account is to Be Made of Certificates from the Martyrs Before the Peace of the Church is Restored
  18. Epistle 18: Caldonius to Cyprian: Whether Some of the Lapsed who Have Now Confessed Christ Should be Received in Peace
  19. Epistle 19: To Caldonius: Peace should not be Refused to the Lapsed who, by Truly Repenting, Have Returned to Christ
  20. Epistle 20: Celerinus to Lucian: Celerinus, on Behalf of His Lapsed Sisters at Rome, Beseeches Peace from the Carthaginian Confessors
  21. Epistle 21: Lucian to Celerinus
  22. Epistle 22: Concerning Many of the Confessors, the Forwardness of Lucian, and the Modesty of Celerinus the Confessor
  23. Epistle 23: The Ordination of Saturus and Optatus and What Cyprian Had Written to Rome
  24. Epistle 24: Congratulation to the Roman Confessors
  25. Epistle 25: To Cyprian Regarding Martyrdom, the Word of the Gospel, and the Lapsed
  26. Epistle 26: To the Lapsed
  27. Epistle 27: Regarding Those who Communicate with the Lapsed
  28. Epistle 28: The Rashness of the Lapsed Who Were Demanding Peace
  29. Epistle 29: How to Treat the Lapsed
  30. Epistle 30: The Roman Church Leaders to Cyprian
  31. Epistle 31: About the Letters Sent to Rome, and Received Thence
  32. Epistle 32: About the Ordination of Aurelius as a Reader
  33. Epistle 33: About the Ordination of Celerinus as Reader
  34. Epistle 34: About the Ordination of Numidicus as Presbyter
  35. Epistle 35: Concerning the Care of the Poor and Strangers
  36. Epistle 36: Cyprian Urges the Church Leaders to Show Kindness to the Confessors in Prison
  37. Epistle 37: To Caldonius, Herculanus, and Others, About the Excommunication of Felicissimus
  38. Epistle 38: The Letter of Caldonius, Herculanus, and Others, on the Excommunication of Felicissimus with His People
  39. Epistle 39: To the People, Concerning Five Schismatic Presbyters of the Faction of Felicissimus
  40. Epistle 40: To Cornelius, on His Refusal to Receive Novatian's Ordination
  41. Epistle 41: To Cornelius, About Cyprian's Approval of His Ordination, and Concerning Felicissimus
  42. Epistle 42: To Cornelius on His Having Sent Letters to the Confessors Whom Novatian Had Seduced.
  43. Epistle 43: To the Roman Confessors, that They Should Return to Unity
  44. Epistle 44: To Cornelius, Concerning Polycarp the Adrumetine
  45. Epistle 45: Cornelius to Cyprian, on the Return of the Confessors to Unity
  46. Epistle 46: Cyprian's Answer to Cornelius, Congratulating Him on the Return of the Confessors from Schism
  47. Epistle 47: Cornelius to Cyprian, Concerning the Faction of Novatian with His Party
  48. Epistle 48: Cyprian's Answer to Cornelius, Concerning the Crimes of Novatus
  49. Epistle 49: Maximus and the Other Confessors to Cyprian, About Their Return from Schism
  50. Epistle 50: To the Confessors, Congratulating Them on Their Return from Schism
  51. Epistle 51: To Antonianus About Cornelius and Novatian's Heresy
  52. Epistle 52: To Fortunatus and His Other Colleagues, Concerning Those Who Had Been Overcome by Tortures
  53. Epistle 53: To Cornelius, Concerning Granting Peace to the Lapsed
  54. Epistle 54: To Cornelius, Concerning Fortunatus and Felicissimus, or Against the Heretics
  55. Epistle 55: To the People of Thibaris, Exhorting to Martyrdom
  56. Epistle 56: To Cornelius in Exile, Concerning His Confession
  57. Epistle 57: To Lucius, the Bishop of Rome, Regarding Deferred Martyrdom of Lucius and His Own Impending Martyrdom
  58. Epistle 58: To Fidus, on the Baptism of Infants and Restoring the Lapsed
  59. Epistle 59: To the Numidian Bishops, on the Redemption of Their Brethren from Captivity Among the Barbarians
  60. Epistle 60: To Euchratius, About Refusing to Admit an Actor Who Insists on Continuing His Disgraceful Calling
  61. Epistle 61: To Pomponius, Concerning Some Virgins
  62. Epistle 62: To Caecilius, on the Sacrament of the Cup of the Lord
  63. Epistle 63: To Epictetus and to the Congregation of Assurae, Concerning Fortunatianus, Formerly Their Bishop
  64. Epistle 64: To Rogatianus, Concerning the Deacon Who Contended Against the Bishop
  65. Epistle 65: To the Clergy and People Abiding at Furni, About Victor, Who Had Made the Presbyter Faustinus a Guardian
  66. Epistle 66: To Father Stephanus, Concerning Marcianus of Arles, Who Had Joined Himself to Novatian
  67. Epistle 67: To the Clergy and People Abiding in Spain, Concerning Basilides and Martial
  68. Epistle 68: To Florentius Pupianus, on Calumniators
  69. Epistle 69: To Januarius and Other Numidian Bishops, on Baptizing Heretics
  70. Epistle 70: To Quintus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics
  71. Epistle 71: To Stephen, Concerning a Council Regarding Receiving Reformed Heretics
  72. Epistle 72: To Jubaianus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics
  73. Epistle 73: To Pompey, Against the Epistle of Stephen About the Baptism of Heretics
  74. Epistle 74: Firmilian, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, to Cyprian, Against the Letter of Stephen
  75. Epistle 75: To Magnus, on Baptizing the Novatians, and Whether Baptism by Sprinkling to Those on a Sick-Bed is Legitimate
  76. Epistle 76: Cyprian to Nemesianus and Other Martyrs in the Mines
  77. Epistle 77: The Reply of Nemesianus, Dativus, Felix, and Victor, to Cyprian
  78. Epistle 78: The Reply to the Same of Lucius and the Rest of the Martyrs
  79. Epistle 79: The Answer of Felix, Jader, Polianus, and the Rest of the Martyrs, to Cyprian
  80. Epistle 80: To Sergius, Rogatianus, and the Other Confessors in Prison
  81. Epistle 81: To Successus on the Tidings Brought from Rome, Telling of the Persecution
  82. Epistle 82: To the Church Leaders and People Concerning His Retirement, a Little Before His Martyrdom
  83. Elucidations

Treatises of Cyprian

  1. Treatise I. On the Unity of the Church
  2. Treatise II.On the Dress of Virgins
  3. Treatise III. On the Lapsed.
  4. Treatise IV.On the Lord's Prayer
  5. Treatise V.An Address to Demetrianus
  6. Treatise VI.On the Vanity of Idols
  7. Treatise VII. On the Mortality
  8. Treatise VIII.On Works and Alms
  9. Treatise IX. On the Advantage of Patience
  10. Treatise X.On Jealousy and Envy
  11. Treatise XI.Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus
  12. Treatise XII.Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews
  13. Elucidations
  14. The Seventh Council of Carthage Under Cyprian
  15. Elucidation
  16. Treatises Attributed to Cyprian on Questionable Authority
  17. On the Public Shows
  18. On the Glory of Martyrdom
  19. Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity
  20. Exhortation to Repentance
  21. Elucidations