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Born to wealthy pagan parents.
Taught rhetoric and literature. Adult convert in 246. Priest. Bishop of
Carthage in 249. Writer. Latin Father of the Church. Exiled during the
persecutions of Valerian. Friend of Saint Pontius. Involved in the great
argument over whether apostates should be readmitted to the Church;
Cyprian believed they should, but under stringent conditions. Martyr.
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