{edih}|beatified_date=|beatified_place=|beatified_by=|canonized_date=|canonized_place=|canonized_by=|major_shrine=|attributes=Vested as a bishop, holding a Gospel Book|patronage= Athens, Crotone, Jerez de la Frontera and OjÃ©n|issues=|suppressed_date=|prayer=|prayer_attrib=}}Dionysius the Areopagite ({{IPAc-en|d|aÉª|É™|Ëˆ|n|Éª|s|i|É™|s}}; Dionysios ho AreopagitÄ“s) was an Athenian judge at the Areopagus Court in Athens, who lived in the first century. A convert to Christianity, he is venerated as a saint by multiple denominations.

Life

File:Domenico Ghirlandaio Madonna and Child enthroned between Angels and Saint c 1486.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|left|Dionysius the Areopagite with Thomas Aquinas, Madonna and the Child. Madonna and Child Enthroned between Angels and Saints by Domenico Ghirlandaio Domenico GhirlandaioFile:Dionysiou Ta Sozomena Panta.tif|thumb|, or [All extant works of Dionysius the Areopagite] (Venice: Antonio Zatta Antonio ZattaAs related in the Acts of the Apostles ({{Bibleverse||Acts|17:34|KJV}}), he was converted to Christianity by the preaching of Paul the Apostle."Dionysius The Areopagite". Encyclopedia Britannica.After his conversion, Dionysius became the first Bishop of Athens,Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiae III: iv though he is sometimes counted as the second after Hierotheus. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox churches. He is the patron saint of Athens and is venerated as the protector of judges and the judiciary. His memory is celebrated on October 3.WEB,weblink Dionysios the Areopagite - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, www.goarch.org, en-US, 2018-10-04, Martyrologium Romanum, editio typica altera (Vatican City: Typis Vaticanis, 2004).

Historic confusions

In the early sixth century the so-called Corpus Dionysiacum, a series of writings of a mystical nature, employing Neoplatonic language to elucidate Christian theological and mystical ideas, was ascribed to the Areopagite. Its author is now known as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the confusion between Dionysius and Pseudo-Dionysius A minority of scholars, including Romanian theologian Dumitru StÄƒniloae,WEB, The Dionysian Authorship of the "Corpus Areopagiticum" According to Fr. Dumitru Staniloae,weblink johnsanidopoulos.com, 2023-12-06, argue in favor of authenticity citing internal historical details and the existence of explicit citations of Dionysius predating Proclus by writers such as Dionysius of Alexandria and Gregory Nazianzus.Anthony Pavoni and Evangelos Nikitopoulos, The Life of Saint Dionysius the Areopogite. Scriptorium Press: Montreal, 2023, 14-180. Even Proclus himself appears to cite an external authority for a euphemism ("flowers and supersubstantial lights") when the said verbiage is found explicitly in the Corpus Dionysiacum.Ibid., 94-96.Dionysius has been misidentified with the martyr Dionysius, the first Bishop of Paris. However, this mistake by a ninth-century writer is ignored and each saint is commemorated on his respective day.WEB, Hieromartyr Dionysius of Paris, Bishop,weblink oca.org, 2015-10-16,

Modern references

In Athens there are two large churches bearing his name, one in Kolonaki on Skoufa Street, while the other is the Catholic Metropolis of Athens, on Panepistimiou Street. The pedestrian walkway around the Acropolis, which passes through the rock of the Areios Pagos, also bears his name.Dionysius is the patron saint of the Gargaliani of Messenia, as well as in the village of Dionysi in the south of the prefecture of Heraklion. The village was named after him and is the only village of Crete with a church in honor of Saint Dionysios Areopagitis.

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Max MÃ¼ller Dionysius the Areopagite Lecture 1895

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