Dionysius the Bishop

Dionysius, bishop of the church of Corinth, was so eloquent and so hardworking that by his letters he taught not only the people of his own city and province but those of other provinces and cities as well. Of these letters, one is to the Lacedaemonians, another to the Athenians, a third to the Nicomedians, a fourth to the Cretans, a fifth to the church at Amastris and to the other churches of Pontus, a sixth to the Gnosians and to Pinytus, bishop of that same city, a seventh to the Romans, addressed to Soter their bishop, and an eighth to Chrysophora, a holy woman. He flourished in the reign of Marcus Antoninus Verus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus. [a]