# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/firmilian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:03:00.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/firmilian"
name: "Firmilian"
slug: "firmilian"
description: "Firmilian, Bishop of Caesarea Mazaca from c. 232, was a disciple of Origen. He had a contemporary reputation comparable to that of Dionysius of Alexandria or Cyprian, bishop of Carthage. He took an active part in the mid-3rd century controversies over rebaptising heretics and readmitting lapsed Christians after the persecutions of Decius and was excommunicated by Pope Stephen I for his position. A single letter of Firmilian to Cyprian survives among Cyprian's correspondence. Jerome omits Firmilian from De viris illustribus. \"To his contemporaries his forty years of influential episcopate, his friendship with Origen and Dionysius, the appeal to him of Cyprian, and his censure of Stephanus might well make him seem the most conspicuous figure of his time\" (Wace)."
tagline: "3rd century Bishop of Caesarea Mazaca"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "200"
deathDate: "268"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.409504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Фирмилијан Кесаријски"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmili%C3%A0_de_Cesarea"
    title: "Firmilià de Cesarea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmilian"
    title: "Firmilian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A6%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82"
    title: "Φιρμιλιανός Καισαρείας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmilian"
    title: "Firmilian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmiliano_de_Cesarea"
    title: "Firmiliano de Cesarea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmilianus"
    title: "Firmilianus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmiliano_di_Cesarea"
    title: "Firmiliano di Cesarea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmiliano_de_Cesareia"
    title: "Firmiliano de Cesareia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sf%C3%A2ntul_Firmilian"
    title: "Sfântul Firmilian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD_(%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Фирмилиан (святитель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1419147"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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