Ephesus
Episcopal see · Place of martyrdom · Council site · Port
ancient Greek city in Anatolia
Location: 37.9397, 27.3486 · Pleiades 599612
What this place is
- Port — a harbour as well as a see: ships put in at it and sailed from it on Paul's second and third journeys
Glosses
- The fish, and the acrostic inside it Greek for fish is ΙΧΘΥΣ, and read downward the five letters spell Ἰησοῦς Χριστός Θεοῦ Υἱός Σωτήρ — Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour. The earliest datable witnesses to the fish as a Christian sign all fall around…
Seat of
Who is recorded here
- Epenetus of Carthage birth · AD 1
- Mary Magdalene residence · AD 50
- Trophimus birth · AD 50
- Paul the Apostle travel · AD 52
- Paul the Apostle ministry · AD 53
- John the Apostle ministry · AD 66
- John the Apostle residence · AD 96
- Saint Timothy death · AD 97
- John the Evangelist death · AD 98
- John the Apostle death · AD 99
- John of Patmos death · AD 100
- Mary Magdalene death · AD 100
- Polycrates of Ephesus birth · AD 125
- Polycrates of Ephesus death · AD 196
- Apollonius of Ephesus birth · AD 201
- John VI birth · AD 655
- Theodosios III death · AD 722
- Onesiphorus death
- Paul the Apostle residence
- Tychicus birth
What happened here
- Apollos is taught the way more accurately AD 52
- Paul's Third Missionary Journey AD 53
- Timothy and Erastus sent into Macedonia AD 56
- The silversmiths' riot at Ephesus AD 56
- Timothy is left in charge at Ephesus AD 65
- John settles in Asia AD 70
- The Martyrdom of Timothy AD 97
- Cerinthus teaches in Asia AD 100
- The Repose of John at Ephesus AD 100
- The dialogue at Ephesus AD 135
- Autocephaly of Cyprus confirmed AD 431
- Council of Ephesus AD 431
- Second Council of Ephesus AD 449
In art
About the place
Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, in present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of Apasa, a city-state that was also the capital of Arzawa, by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists.
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