Agapius (disambiguation)
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Agapius may refer to:
- Saint Agapius of SpainSaint Agapius of SpainSaint Agapius of Spain was a Christian martyr and most likely a bishop who died under the persecutions of the emperor Valerian in AD 259. According to tradition he was a Spaniard, who along with some others was exiled by the Roman government to Africa. He was martyred along with several others at...
(d. 259), Christian martyr, died at Citra. - Saint Agapius of PalestineSaint Agapius of PalestineSaint Agapius of Palestine was a Christian martyr from Gaza, beheaded along with seven others by order of Urban, governor of Palestine, in the year 303 or 304 under the Great Persecution of Diocletian...
(d. 303-304) Christian martyr, beheaded along with many others under Great Persecution of Diocletian - Agapius of Edessa (d. 304) Christian martyr and one of three sons of St. Bassa.
- Saint AgapiusAgapiusSaint Agapius was a Christian martyr killed at Caesarea in AD 306. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. His martyrdom is recorded by Eusebius of Caesarea in his work The Martyrs of Palestine....
of Caesarea (d. 306), Christian martyr, drowned in Caesarea. - Agapius of CaesareaAgapius of CaesareaAgapius of Caesarea was bishop of Caesarea Maritima from 303 to c. 312. He may have baptized and trained Eusebius, who was to become his successor....
(d. c 312), bishop of Caesarea, predecessor to Eusebius - Agapius (soldier), (d. 315), Christian martyr and soldier, burned with Carterius and others in Armenia.
- Agapius of Novara, (d. 447) Bishop of Novara, Piedmont, Italy for over 30 years.
- Agapius (Manichaean)Agapius (Manichaean)Agapius was a Christian philosopher associated with Manichaeism. He is supposed to have lived in the fourth or fifth century.-Identity:...
, (4th or 5th century) Manichaean philosopher and possible disciple of ManiMani (prophet)Mani , of Iranian origin was the prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion of Late Antiquity which was once widespread but is now extinct... - Agapius (physician)Agapius (physician)Agapius was an ancient physician of Alexandria, who taught and practiced medicine at Byzantium with great success and reputation, and acquired immense riches. Of his date it can only be determined, that he must have lived before the end of the fifth century, as Damascius Agapius (Gr. ') was an...
, (5th century) ancient physician from Alexandria. - Agapius (philosopher)Agapius (philosopher)Agapius was a Neoplatonist philosopher who lived in Athens. He was a notable philosopher in the Neoplatonist school in Athens when Marinus of Neapolis was scholarch after the death of Proclus...
, (5th-6th century) Neoplatonist philosopher - Agapius the historianAgapius the historianAgapius son of Constantine was a 10th century Arabic Christian writer, best known for his lengthy Kitab al-'Unwan . He was the Melkite bishop of Manbij .He was contemporary with the annalist Eutychius , also a Melchite...
, (10th century) Arabic Christian bishop of Manbij (Hierapolis), near Aleppo. - Agapius was also the name of a companion of Saint Aphrodisius.
- Saint Martyr AgapiusSaint Martyr AgapiusSaint and Martyr Agapius of Galatista was born in Galatista, a town in Chalkidiki, Macedonia , in 1710. At that time Galatista was a Bishopry and had many schools providing formidable education...
from Galatista (Macedonia) (1710-1752).