Hypatius of Ephesus
metropolitan of Ephesus
b. 1st millennium · d. c. 540
12th Metropolitan of Ephesus
Offices
Hypatius of Ephesus was the metropolitan of Ephesus from 531 to about 538. He campaigned against Monophysitism and cooperated with Emperor Justinian I on various ecclesiastical issues. He was an early opponent of the authenticity of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Related people
- John of Ephesus succeeded · inferred
- Abraham of Ephesus preceded · inferred
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 671 sqq. — Provincia Asia, Ecclesia Ephesi metropolis