Did Papias remain in office up to 10 years after his death?

Francis
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,306

    Looks like an issue with different resources having different timeline dates

  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 16,333

    The timeline usually reflects datings from different sources - did you check that?.EDIT: Ah, I see Graham did. /EDIT

    E.g. English Wikipedia believes Papias "lived circa 70-163 AD" whereas German Wikipedia refuses to give a date and just cites that authors speculate his birth somehwere around 70 but some earlier (60 or even 50) and that he wrote his books around 120. Obviously dating his life and his episcopate involves judgment and different authors come to different conclusions about that.  

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  • Francis
    Francis Member Posts: 4,035 ✭✭✭

    If nothing else, this thread can help alert users to the way timelines work. The confluence of timeline items in one timeline can give the impression that it constitutes a coherent resource of its own whereas it does in fact query and pull together a visual report of different resources that may disagree or conflict.

  • Mike Childs
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    I suppose they felt that even in his present condition he was better than the other available candidates.  I wonder if we could elect him a United Methodist Bishop at the next Jurisdictional Conference?


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  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 16,333

    I suppose they felt that even in his present condition he was better than the other available candidates.  I wonder if we could elect him a United Methodist Bishop at the next Jurisdictional Conference?

    [:D]

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

  • Lew Worthington
    Lew Worthington Member Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭

    I suppose they felt that even in his present condition he was better than the other available candidates.  I wonder if we could elect him a United Methodist Bishop at the next Jurisdictional Conference?

    That's hilarious. It also gives me some insight into 1 Cor 15:29a. [:)]

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,586

    Francis said:

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    How the timeline shows us the source of the data and hence the cause of discrpencies

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