# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dositheos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:21:45.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dositheos"
name: "Dositheos"
slug: "dositheos"
description: "Dositheos was a Samaritan religious leader. He was the founder of a Samaritan sect often assumed to be Gnostic in nature, and is reputed to have known John the Baptist, and been either a teacher or a rival of Simon Magus."
tagline: "1st century AD Samaritan religious leader and founder of a gnostic Samaritan sect"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "50"
deathDate: "100"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.28
  momentum:             4.716157205240175
  historical:           8.773725333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dositej_Samari%C4%87anin"
    title: "Dositej Samarićanin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "دوسيثيوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dositeu_de_Samaria"
    title: "Dositeu de Samaria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dositheus_von_Samaria"
    title: "Dositheus von Samaria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dositheos_(Samaritan)"
    title: "Dositheos (Samaritan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dositeo_de_Samaria"
    title: "Dositeo de Samaria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosith%C3%A9e_de_Samarie"
    title: "Dosithée de Samarie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doszitheosz"
    title: "Doszitheosz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dositeo_(predicatore)"
    title: "Dositeo (predicatore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dositeu"
    title: "Dositeu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q897499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump