St. Philip of Gortyna

Feastday: April 11
Death: 180

Bishop of Gortyna, Crete. Little is known about him except for his authorship of a now lost treatise against the Gnostics.

Saint Philip of Gortyna (died 180) was Bishop of Gortyna on Crete. 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.

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Death: 180