Rufinus
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Rufinus may refer to:
- Saints RufinusSaints RufinusThe Roman Martyrology records eleven saints named Rufinus:* On 28 February, a Roman martyr Rufinus, with several companions in martyrdom; nothing is known concerning them....
, eleven saints named Rufinus in Roman Martyrology - Rufinus of AssisiRufinus of AssisiAccording to legend, Rufinus of Assisi , who is the patron saint of Assisi, Italy, was the first bishop of Assisi. He was responsible for converting Assisi to Christianity, but at what date is disputed...
, 3rd century saint and martyr - Rufinus (French saint) (d. 287), Christian martyr
- Rufinus (Roman governor)Rufinus (Roman governor)... Rufinus is the fragment of the name of a governor of Britannia Superior, a province of Roman Britain probably some time during the early third century AD. He may have been the same man as Aulus Triarius Rufinus who held the consulship in 210 although Quintus Aradius Rufinus who was consul ten...
, 3rd century governor of Roman Britain - Rufinus (consul) (c. 335-395), Eastern Roman statesman
- Tyrannius RufinusTyrannius RufinusTyrannius Rufinus or Rufinus of Aquileia was a monk, historian, and theologian. He is most known as a translator of Greek patristic material into Latin—especially the work of Origen.-Life:...
(c. 340-410), Roman monk and historian - Saint Rufinus of Sarsina (5th century), bishop of Sarsina
- Rufinus (poet)Rufinus (poet)Rufinus is the author of thirty-eight epigrams in the Greek Anthology, and probably of one more, which is ascribed in the Planudean Anthology to an otherwise unknown Rufinus Domesticus...
of the Greek Anthology - Rufinus (decretist)Rufinus (decretist)Rufinus was an Italian canon lawyer, described as the most influential canonist at the University of Bologna in the mid 12th century. He composed an influential Summa on Gratian's Decretum before 1159....
, 12th-century canon lawyer