St. Papias was the Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia, Asia Minor (Modern Turkey) in the first century. Little is known about him beyond the fragments of his own writings and the statements of St. Irenaeus that he was a companion of St. Polycarp and "a man of long ago." His own work, Expositions on the Oracles of the Lord, is preserved only through quotations found in Irenaeus and Eusebius of Caesarea. Papias was martyred around 130 AD.