Saint Philip of Gortyna | |
Death Date: | 180 |
Feast Day: | 11 April |
Venerated In: | Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church |
Titles: | Apologist and Bishop of Gortyna |
Canonized Date: | pre-congregation |
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.