Pierius was a Christian priest and probably head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria, conjointly with Achillas.
His skill as an exegetical writer and as a preacher gained for him the appellation, "Origen the Younger".
However, since Jerome assures us that he survived the Diocletianic Persecution and spent the rest of his life at Rome,[1] the term "martyr" can only mean that he underwent sufferings, not death, for his faith.
He wrote a work (biblion) comprising twelve treatises or sermons (logoi), in some of which he repeats the dogmatic points attributed by some authors to Origen, such as the subordination of the Holy Ghost to the Father and the Son, and the pre-existence of human souls.
They were edited by Martin Joseph Routh,[3] and in Patrologia Graeca;[4] Carl de Boor added some fragments.