dionysius Summary and Overview

the Areopagite, one of Paul's converts at Athens (Acts 17:34).

(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.

DIONY'SIUS (votary of Dionysus; i.e. Bacchus), a member of the court of the Areopagus; converted under the preaching of Paul at Athens. Acts 17:34. Tradition says he became the bishop of Athens, where he suffered martyrdom, a.d. 95. The writings which bear his name are of much later date.