What is "serapion"

Serapion is a given name, a variant of Seraphin.

People called Serapion:

• Serapion of Alexandria (3rd century BC), Greek physician
• Serapion, probably negotiated in 48 BC for Caesar with Achillas, strategos of Cyprus in 43 BC, executed in 41 BC
• Bar-Serapion, Syrian stoicist.
• Saint Serapion of Macedonia (d. 195), Martyr
• Serapion of Antioch (c. 200 AD), Patriarch of Antioch
• Serapion (Disciple of Plotinus) was a 3rd-century neoplatonic philosopher and student of Plotinus
• Saint Serapion of Thmuis (4th century)
• Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), also known as Serapion the Elder or Johannes Serapion, Christian physician who wrote two medical compilations in Syriac
• Serapion the Younger (c. 12th century), physician who wrote The Book of Simple Medicine (in Arabic)
• Serapion of Vladimir (13th century), bishop of Vladimir
• Saint Serapion of Algiers (1179–1240), Mercedarian saint
• Saint Serapion (Archbishop of Novgorod) (d. 1516)
• Serapion of Egypt (1709-1903), Coptic monk
• Serapion (Coptic bishop of Los Angeles) (b. 1951)

Serapion ("presumed" died 41 BC) was strategos of Cyprus during the reign of Cleopatra VII in 43 BC. Against the intention of the Egyptian queen he supported in the Roman civil war Gaius Cassius Longinus, but had to take refuge in Tyre and was finally handed over to Cleopatra in 41 BC. Perhaps he is identical with that Serapion, who was instructed by Julius Caesar to negotiate in 48 BC with the Egyptian commander Achillas.