Melito of Sardis (Greek: Μελίτων Σάρδεων Melítōn Sárdeōn; died c. 180) was the bishop of Sardis near Smyrna in western Anatolia, and who held a foremost...

Martyr and Melito of Sardis as early as the 2nd century. The Biblical passage Matthew 27:24–25 has been seen as giving voice to the charge of Jewish deicide...

Περί Πάσχα) (English title On the Pascha) is a 2nd-century homily of Melito of Sardis written between A.D.160 and 170 in Asia Minor. It was discovered...

regard Melito himself as the "apostle" or "angel of the church of Sardis." In the Book of Revelation, Saint John writes a letter to the church of Sardis, reproaching...

with the site of Golgotha; Melito of Sardis, an influential mid-2nd century bishop in the region, described the location as "in the middle of the street...

Melito's canon is the biblical canon attributed to Melito of Sardis, one of the early Church Fathers of the 2nd century. Melito provides what is possibly...

point of academic debate. Second-century Christian writers such as Papias of Hierapolis, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Melito of Sardis, Clement of Alexandria...

to Melito of Sardis, and in a spurious letter attributed to Denis the Areopagite. The Euthymiac History, from the sixth century, is cited by John of Damascus...

earliest examples of apologetic literature), to the general era of Melito of Sardis, Athenagoras of Athens, and Tatian. The text itself does not identify the...

against such literal interpretations of the passages from Matthew and Mark in his First Principles. Bishop Melito of Sardis (d. ca 180), who was a eunuch, according...