ABSTRACT
Dionysius the Areopagite, whose conversion to Christianity is described in Acts 17.16-34, was an Athenian philosopher who was reputed to have become the first bishop of Athens. Apart from Acts 17, the only other information that we have of him comes from Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiastical History:
. . . that member of the Areopagus, Dionysius by name, whom Luke records in the Acts as having received the faith for the first time after Paul’s public address to the Athenians in the Areopagus, is described by one of the ancients, another Dionysius, shepherd of the diocese of Corinth, as having been the first Bishop of Athens.1
