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.

Saint Philip of Gortyna
Apologist and Bishop of Gortyna
Died180
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonizedpre-congregation
Feast11 April

References

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  1. ^ St. Philip of Gortyna Catholic Online

Bibliography

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  • Eusebius, Hist. eccl., IV., xxiii. 5; Eng. transl., NPNF, 2 ser., i. 201
  • New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri – Reuchlin