Basilides (bishop of Ptolemais)

Basilides or Basileides (Ancient Greek: Βασιλείδης) was a Christian bishop of Ptolemais in the Pentapolis of Cyrenaica. He lived in the 3rd century CE.[1]

He was a contemporary and friend of Pope Dionysius of Alexandria, to whom he wrote numerous letters. These letters of Basilides are now lost, but the answers of Dionysius remain, several of which are quoted by 3rd-century historian of Christianity Eusebius.[2]

The 17th-century scholar William Cave believed that Basilides had been an Egyptian by birth, and he places him at the year 256 CE.[3]

References

  1. ^ von Harnack, Adolf (1908). Moffatt, James (ed.). The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. Vol. 2. Williams and Norgate. p. 178. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  2. ^ Duchesne, Louis (1913). Early History of the Christian Church: From Its Foundation to the End of the Fifth Century. Vol. 1. Longmans, Green & Company. p. 351. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  3. ^ William Cave, Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria (1688)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Basileides (5)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 465.

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