Papias of Hierapolis
Greek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis and author (c.60-c.130 AD)
b. c. 60 · d. 140
Papias or Papias of Hierapolis was a Greek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis, and author who lived c. AD 60 – c. 130. He is mainly known for gathering oral stories about Jesus and his disciples, which he compiled in a now-lost five-volume work titled Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord. Brief excerpts of this work appear in the works of Irenaeus of Lyons and Eusebius of Caesarea. They are considered an important early source on Christian oral tradition and especially on the origins of the canonical Gospels.
Related people
- John the Evangelist disciple of · traditional
Events
Commemorated
Places
- Asia Minor ministry
- İzmir death
- Hierapolis death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Ecclesiastical History 2 claims — Papias gathers the sayings of the Lord; The five Johns
Documents
- Fragments of Papias author
Glosses
- The five Johns Wikidata carries five separate items for John — the apostle, the evangelist, the beloved disciple, the presbyter and the seer of Patmos — linked to one another by P460, and this dataset keeps all five rather than…