Apollonius (bishop of Ephesus)

Apollonius (Ancient Greek: Απολλώνιος) was a Christian writer whose parents and country are unknown, but who is believed to have been bishop of Ephesus, and to have lived about the year 192. He wrote a work exposing the conduct and practices of the Christian sect called Cataphryges, some fragments of which are preserved in the works of the church historian Eusebius.^[1] Christian writer Tertullian defended the sect of the Montanists against this Apollonius, and the seventh book of his work On Ecstasies (περὶ ἐκστάσεως) was especially directed against Apollonius.^[2][3][4]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Apollodorus of Amphipolis". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 233.