plural of Antiochian

Of or pertaining to ancient Antioch.

(historical) A person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient Antioch.

Pertaining to Antiochus of Ascalon, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

(Christianity, historical) A school of theology in the 4th and 5th centuries which spread over the whole Graeco-Syrian Church, and was a revolt against the allegorical interpretation of Scripture favoured by the Alexandrian school.

One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.