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Little is known
of his life before he became bishop; the assignment
of the year [[315]] for his birth rests on mere
conjecture. He seems to have been ordained deacon by
Bishop [[Macarius of Jerusalem]] about 335, and priest
some ten years later by Maximus. Naturally
inclined to peace and conciliation, he
the metropolitan's court influence, and Cyril
suffered another year's exile from Jerusalem, until
Arian emperor Valens banished him once more in
367, after which he remained undisturbed until his
decidedly empirical-- the existing catholic Church
form is the true one, intended by Christ, the
completion of the Church of the [[Old Testament]]. Hisdoctrine on the [[Eucharist]] is noteworthy. If he
sometimes seems to approach the symbolical view,
at other times he comes very close to a strong