Whether Cyril calls his hearers Christians before
they had been baptized is not very clear: in Cat. x.
§ 16, he seems to include them among those who are called by the
“new name;” but in § 20 of the same Lecture he assumes
that there may be present some one who “was before a believer
(πιστός),” and
to him he says “Thou wert called a Christian; be tender of the
name,” and in Lect. xxi. i, speaking to those who had now been
baptized, he says, “Having therefore become partakers of
Christ, ye are properly called Christs. Now ye have been made
Christs by receiving the antitype of the Holy Ghost,” that is,
Chrism.