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Papias of Hierapolis. Papias ( Greek: Παπίας) was a Greek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis (modern Pamukkale, Turkey), and author who lived c. 60 – c. 130 AD [2] [3] He wrote the Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord ( Greek: Λογίων Κυριακῶν Ἐξήγησις) in five books.
- after c. 100
- February 22
Apr 1, 2024 · Papias (flourished 2nd century) was a bishop of Hierapolis, in Phrygia (now in Turkey), and one of the Apostolic Fathers.His work Explanation of the Sayings of the Lord, although extant only in fragments, provides important apostolic oral source accounts of the history of primitive Christianity and of the origins of the Gospels.
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Papias. 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". He wrote a work in five books, logion kyriakon exegesis, of which all but some fragments is lost.
Jan 4, 2022 · Who was Papias of Hierapolis? Little is known about the life and death of Papias (c. AD 60–130) other than he was the bishop of Hierapolis in Asia Minor (now modern Turkey), and he recorded details regarding Jesus and the apostles in five books entitled Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord. Unfortunately, Papias’s books are now lost except ...
Papias. 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.
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Papias was the bishop of Hierapolis in modern Pamukkale, Turkey, about 22 km from Laodicea, also near Colossae, in the Lycus river valley. This location should not be confused with the Hierapolis of Syria. When he was born is uncertain, but it was probably after 70 C.E. and well before the turn of the first century.
Jan 29, 2021 · Learn about Papias, the bishop of Hierapolis who knew the Apostle John and wrote An Interpretation of the Sayings of the Lord. Discover his fragments on early Christian traditions and the origins of the Gospels.
