Greco-Christian stream·Patrologia (Church Fathers)·The Apostles and the Disciples (Pseudonymous) — St. Hippolytus of Rome

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apostolic and disciplic authorship traditions attributed to Hippolytus of Rome

Steiner

• GA 87, 1902-04-05Steiner notes that early Greek Church writings present themselves as developments of the old mystery tradition, raising the question of genuine apostolic continuity versus later doctrinal attribution.
• GA 87, 1902-02-15Steiner, surveying Church Fathers and gnostic sources, observes that the boundaries between authentic and pseudonymous ecclesiastical authorship are genuinely difficult to establish by historical-critical method alone.

Cross-tradition

• Pseudepigrapha traditions (Jewish and early Christian)Attribution of texts to authoritative apostolic or prophetic figures was a widespread legitimating strategy in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian literary culture, structurally paralleling Hippolytus's pseudonymous corpus.
• Neoplatonic school transmissionNeoplatonic diadochē practice — the formal chain of succession from master to disciple — provides a cross-tradition congruence with patristic claims of apostolic derivation as a mark of doctrinal authority.

The Apostles and the Disciples (Pseudonymous)

St. Hippolytus of Rome · Saint

[Chapter 1 (¶1)] Where Each of Them Preached, And Where He Met His End.

[Chapter 1 §1] James the Lord's brother, bishop of Jerusalem.

[Chapter 1 §2] Cleopas, bishop of Jerusalem.

[Chapter 1 §3] Matthias, who supplied the vacant place in the number of the twelve apostles.

[Chapter 1 §4] Thaddeus, who conveyed the epistle to Augarus.

[Chapter 1 §5] Ananias, who baptized Paul, and was bishop of Damascus.

[Chapter 1 §6] Stephen, the first martyr.

[Chapter 1 §7] Philip, who baptized the eunuch.

[Chapter 1 §8] Prochorus, bishop of Nicomedia, who also was the first that departed, believing together with his daughters.

[Chapter 1 §9] Nicanor died when Stephen was martyred.

[Chapter 1 §10] Timon, bishop of Bostra.

[Chapter 1 §11] Parmenas, bishop of Soli.

[Chapter 1 §12] Nicolaus, bishop of Samaria.

[Chapter 1 §13] Barnabas, bishop of Milan.

[Chapter 1 §14] Mark the evangelist, bishop of Alexandria.

[Chapter 1 §15] Luke the evangelist.

[Chapter 1 (¶30)] These two belonged to the seventy disciples who were scattered by the offense of the word which Christ spoke, Except a man eat my flesh, and drink my blood, he is not worthy of me. But the one being induced to return to the Lord by Peter's instrumentality, and the other by Paul's, they were honoured to preach that Gospel on account of which they also suffered martyrdom, the one being burned, and the other being crucified on an olive tree.

[Chapter 1 §16] Silas, bishop of Corinth.

[Chapter 1 §17] Silvanus, bishop of Thessalonica.

[Chapter 1 §18] Crisces (Crescens), bishop of Carchedon in Gaul.

[Chapter 1 §19] Epaenetus, bishop of Carthage.

[Chapter 1 §20] Andronicus, bishop of Pannonia.

[Chapter 1 §21] Amplias, bishop of Odyssus.

[Chapter 1 §22] Urban, bishop of Macedonia.

[Chapter 1 §23] Stachys, bishop of Byzantium.

[Chapter 1 §24] Barnabas, bishop of Heraclea.

[Chapter 1 §25] Phygellus, bishop of Ephesus. He was of the party also of Simon.

[Chapter 1 §26] Hermogenes. He, too, was of the same mind with the former.

[Chapter 1 §27] Demas, who also became a priest of idols.

[Chapter 1 §28] Apelles, bishop of Smyrna.

[Chapter 1 §29] Aristobulus, bishop of Britain.

[Chapter 1 §30] Narcissus, bishop of Athens.

[Chapter 1 §31] Herodion, bishop of Tarsus.

[Chapter 1 §32] Agabus the prophet.

[Chapter 1 §33] Rufus, bishop of Thebes.

[Chapter 1 §34] Asyncritus, bishop of Hyrcania.

[Chapter 1 §35] Phlegon, bishop of Marathon.

[Chapter 1 §36] Hermes, bishop of Dalmatia.

[Chapter 1 §37] Patrobulus, bishop of Puteoli.

[Chapter 1 §38] Hermas, bishop of Philippi.

[Chapter 1 §39] Linus, bishop of Rome.

[Chapter 1 §40] Caius, bishop of Ephesus.

[Chapter 1 §41] Philologus, bishop of Sinope.

[Chapter 1 (¶57)] 42, 43. Olympus and Rhodion were martyred in Rome.

[Chapter 1 §44] Lucius, bishop of Laodicea in Syria.

[Chapter 1 §45] Jason, bishop of Tarsus.

[Chapter 1 §46] Sosipater, bishop of Iconium.

[Chapter 1 §47] Tertius, bishop of Iconium.

[Chapter 1 §48] Erastus, bishop of Panellas.

[Chapter 1 §49] Quartus, bishop of Berytus.

[Chapter 1 §50] Apollo, bishop of Caesarea.

[Chapter 1 §51] Cephas.

[Chapter 1 §52] Sosthenes, bishop of Colophonia.

[Chapter 1 §53] Tychicus, bishop of Colophonia.

[Chapter 1 §54] Epaphroditus, bishop of Andriace.

[Chapter 1 §55] Caesar, bishop of Dyrrachium.

[Chapter 1 §56] Mark, cousin to Barnabas, bishop of Apollonia.

[Chapter 1 §57] Justus, bishop of Eleutheropolis.

[Chapter 1 §58] Artemas, bishop of Lystra.

[Chapter 1 §59] Clement, bishop of Sardinia.

[Chapter 1 §60] Onesiphorus, bishop of Corone.

[Chapter 1 §61] Tychicus, bishop of Chalcedon.

[Chapter 1 §62] Carpus, bishop of Berytus in Thrace.

[Chapter 1 §63] Evodus, bishop of Antioch.

[Chapter 1 §64] Aristarchus, bishop of Apamea.

[Chapter 1 §65] Mark, who is also John, bishop of Bibloupolis.

[Chapter 1 §66] Zenas, bishop of Diospolis.

[Chapter 1 §67] Philemon, bishop of Gaza.

[Chapter 1 (¶82)] 68, 69. Aristarchus and Pudes.

[Chapter 1 §70] Trophimus, who was martyred along with Paul.

[Chapter 1 (¶84)] Source. Translated by J.H. MacMahon. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0524.htm.

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