(c. A.D. 100–175) Author of an influential and philosophically sophisticated version of Gnosticismis a broad label covering a wide range of non-orthodox forms of Christianity which proliferated in the early Church that devalued the material world a... more. He was active in Rome in the 140s, and even hoped to become bishopA person holding the ecclesiastical office that exerciseds authority over the laity and priests in a geographical area called a “diocese” where th... more of Rome.
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