Philip of Gortyna
Saint Philip of Gortyna | |
|---|---|
| Apologist and Bishop of Gortyna | |
| Died | 180 |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | pre-congregation |
| Feast | 11 April |
Saint Philip of Gortyna (Greek: Φίλιππος; died 180) was Bishop of Gortyna on Crete.[1] Little is known about him except for his authorship of a now lost treatise against the Gnostics. An Early Christian Apologist, he wrote in the time of Marcus Aurelius against Marcion. He was mentioned with great praise by Dionysius of Corinth in one of his letters to the Christian Community in Gortyna.
References
- ^ St. Philip of Gortyna Catholic Online
Bibliography
- Eusebius, Hist. eccl., IV., xxiii. 5; Eng. transl., NPNF, 2 ser., i. 201
- New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri – Reuchlin