Firmilian

Firmilian ( gr Firmilianos ) ( † 268) was Bishop of Caesarea (today Kayseri ) in Cappadocia (Asia Minor) and one of the leading bishops of his time.

Since 220 ​​he was bishop at Caesarea, he was a friend of Origen and his student. Eusebius reported that Firmilian when he was bishop, his teacher Origen invited to Caesarea. ( Hist. Eccl. , VI, XXVI- XXVIII). In Ketzertaufstreit between the Bishop of Rome, Stephen I and the Bishop of Carthage, Cyprian, he was very much at the Cyprian page. His response letter to Cyprian is preserved in a Latin translation in the collection of letters of Cyprian ( Ep. 75), and provides a valuable resource for the Ketzertaufstreit and the primacy of understanding of Eastern Christianity dar. In the year 268 he died (on the way to a synod in Antioch, should be condemned in the Paul of Samosata ) at Tarsus, Asia Minor.