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Irenaeus testifies that Papias heard the Apostle John preach and was acquainted with Polycarp; Eusebius makes mention of his Explanation of the Sayings of the Lord (in 5 bks.). Source for information on Papias of Hierapolis: New Catholic Encyclopedia dictionary.
Jan 29, 2021 · Papias may be one of the most important church fathers that you have never heard of. Unlike other fathers, we only have short fragments of his works quoted by later authors. Papias was the bishop of Hierapolis in Asia Minor. He was active in the second century, although he was born in the first.
Papias attests the role that oral tradition continued to play in the first half of the second century. Papias himself preferred "the living voice" to what could be found in books. Nevertheless, Papias seems to have known the Gospels, and he provides the earliest tradition concerning the authorship of the Gospel of Mark.
Taking occasion from Papias of Hierapolis, the illustrious, a disciple of the apostle who leaned on the bosom of Christ, and Clemens, and Pantaenus the priest of [the Church] of the Alexandrians, and the wise Ammonius, the ancient and first expositors, who agreed with each other, who understood the work of the six days as referring to Christ ...
PAPIAS pā’ pĭ əs (Παπίας). A bishop of the 1st and 2nd cent. Papias was bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia Pacatiana, a town a few m. N of Laodicea and about one hundred m. E of Ephesus. A little later in the 2nd cent., Claudius Apollinaris the apologete was bishop of the see. Papias prob. was born in the decade a.d. 60-70. His writings ...
May 7, 2008 · Papias wrote in the first half of the second century and was one of the early leaders of the Christian church. Eusebius calls him “Bishop of Hierapolis” (modern Pamukkale, Turkey) which is 22 kilometers from Laodicea near Colossae (see Colossians 4:13) in the Lycus river valley in Phrygia, Asia Minor, not to be confused with the city of Hierapolis in Syria.His “Interpretations of the ...
Papias, Saint, Bishop of Hierapolis (close to Laodicea and Colossae in the valley of the Lycus in Phrygia) and Apostolic Father, called by St. Irenaeus “a hearer of John, and companion of Polycarp, a man of old time”.
