Back Pàpies de Hieràpolis Catalan Papias Czech Papias Danish Papias von Hierapolis German Παπίας Ιεραπόλεως Greek Papiaso de Hierapoliso Esperanto Papías de Hierápolis Spanish Papias Hierapolislainen Finnish Papias d'Hiérapolis French Papias Frisian
Papias of Hierapolis | |
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 Papias of Hierapolis from the Nuremberg Chronicle | |
| Bishop of Hierapolis, Apostolic Father | |
| Died | after c. 100 |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church Eastern Catholicism Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodoxy Lutheranism |
| Feast | February 22[1] |
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. This work, which is lost apart from brief excerpts in the works of Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 180) and Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 320), is an important early source on Christian oral tradition and especially on the origins of the canonical Gospels.
- ^ Butler, Alban; Burns, Paul, eds. (1998). Butler's Lives of the Saints. Vol. 2. p. 220. ISBN 0860122514.
- ^ From Stories to Canon oyc.yale.eduArchived 5 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Papia Hierapolitanus, Fragmenta Archived 12 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine