Dionysius
(Greek Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεοπαγίτης) was a judge of the Areopagus
who, as related in the Acts of the Apostles, (Acts 17:34 ),
was converted to Christianity by the preaching of the Apostle
Paul. According to Dionysius of Corinth, quoted by Eusebius,
this Dionysius then became the second Bishop of Athens......
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Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the
which [was] Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named
Damaris, and others with them....
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di-o-nish'-i-us (Dionusios, surnamed "the Areopagite"): One of
the few Athenians converted by Paul (Acts 17:34). We know
nothing further about him (see AREOPAGUS). According to one
account he was the first bishop of the church at Athens;
according to another he suffered martyrdom in that city under
Domitian. We are even told that he migrated t...
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(devoted to Dionysus, i.e., Bacchus) the Areop'agite, Ac
17:34 an eminent Athenian, converted to Christianity by the
preaching of St. Paul. (A.D. 52.) He is said to have been
first bishop of Athens. The writings which were once
attributed to him are now confessed to be the production of
some neo-Platonists of the sixth century....
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the Areopagite, one of Paul's converts at Athens (Acts
17:34)....
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Converted through Paul at Athens (Acts 17:34), and, by
tradition, its first bishop....
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