Dionysius the Areopagite
Dionysius the Areopagite | |
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Hieromartyr and Bishop of Athens | |
Born | 1st century AD |
Died | 1st century AD |
Venerated in |
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Attributes | Vested as a bishop, holding a Gospel Book |
Patronage | Athens, Crotone, Jerez de la Frontera and Ojén |
Dionysius the Areopagite (
Life
As related in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 17:34), he was converted to Christianity by the preaching of Paul the Apostle.[2]
After his conversion, Dionysius became the first
Historic confusions
In the early sixth century the so-called
Dionysius has been misidentified with the martyr
Modern references
In Athens there are two large churches bearing his name, one in Kolonaki on Skoufa Street, while the other is the Catholic Metropolis of Athens, on Panepistimiou Street. The pedestrian walkway around the Acropolis, which passes through the rock of the Areios Pagos, also bears his name.
Dionysius is the patron saint of the Gargaliani of Messenia, as well as in the village of Dionysi in the south of the prefecture of Heraklion. The village was named after him and is the only village of Crete with a church in honor of Saint Dionysios Areopagitis.
See also
- St. Dionysus Institute in Paris
- Early centers of Christianity#Greece
- Cathedral Basilica of St. Dionysius the Areopagite (A Roman Catholic church in Athens named after Dionysius the Areopagite)
- St Dionysius' Church, Market Harborough, UK
Further reading
- Ælfric of Eynsham (1881). . Ælfric's Lives of Saints. London, Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.
- Chapman, Henry Palmer (1909). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company. . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
- Alexander Weiß, Soziale Elite und Christentum. Studien zu ordo-Angehörigen unter den frühen Christen, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2015, pp. 80–101.
References
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- ^ Domar: The calendrical and liturgical cycle of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church, Armenian Orthodox Theological Research Institute, 2002, p. 528.
- ^ "Dionysius The Areopagite". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ^ Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiae III: iv
- ^ "Dionysios the Areopagite - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America". www.goarch.org. Retrieved 2018-10-04. Martyrologium Romanum, editio typica altera (Vatican City: Typis Vaticanis, 2004).
- ^ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the confusion between Dionysius and Pseudo-Dionysius
- ^ "The Dionysian Authorship of the "Corpus Areopagiticum" According to Fr. Dumitru Staniloae". johnsanidopoulos.com. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ Anthony Pavoni and Evangelos Nikitopoulos, The Life of Saint Dionysius the Areopogite. Scriptorium Press: Montreal, 2023, 14-180.
- ^ Ibid., 94-96.
- ^ "Hieromartyr Dionysius of Paris, Bishop". oca.org. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
Sources
- Corrigan, Kevin; Harrington, Michael. "Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
External links
- Works by or about Dionysius the Areopagite at Wikisource
- Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite the Bishop of Athens Orthodox synaxarion
- Max Müller Dionysius the Areopagite Lecture 1895