Epiphanes (gnostic)

Epiphanes (* in the late 1st or early 2nd century on Kefalonia) was a Gnostic.

He is said to have been a successor, or his son of the Carpocrates (whose historical existence is disputed ) and his wife Alexandria of Kefalonia. Epiphanes lived in Sami and died at the age of seventeen, but left behind a work On the justice. In it, the differences between slave and free, rich and poor, etc. as not naturally described .. parts of his teaching are in Clement of Alexandria about to be delivered.

After his untimely death, he was worshiped in the Kephalleniern than God, which led to the assumption Epiphanes was not a man but have been a moon god. At each new moon, a festival was celebrated in his honor. His followers built a temple in his honor.