Born at
Marseille, he was the favorite pupil of
St. Caesarius of Arles by whom he was trained. Caesarius ordained him in 506 to the
diaconate, and, in 516, consecrated him as bishop of Toulon. St. Cyprian appears to have been present in 524 at the
synod of
Arles and in the following years to have attended a number of councils, including the
Council of Marseilles. At all these assemblies he showed himself a vigorous opponent of
Semipelagianism. The biography was edited by d'Achery and
Mabillon in the
Acta Sanctorum Ord. S. Benedicti, Venice 1733, vol. i. p. 636ff, also in the
Bollandists'
Acta Sanctorum under date of Aug. 27). A modern English translation is W.E. Klingshirn,
Caesarius of Arles: Life, Testament, Letters. Translated Texts for Historians, 19 (Liverpool, 1994). The feast of St. Cyprian falls on October 3. ==References==