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In 306 a young man named Apphianus-a disciple of Pamphilus "while no one was aware he even concealed it from us who were even in the same house" -interrupted the governor in the act of offering sacrifice, and paid for his boldness with martyrdom.

The Diocletianic persecution began in earnest in the year 303. While he was in prison, Pamphilus and Eusebius worked together on five books in defense of Origen. According to Eusebius, he suffered martyrdom in the third year of the Diocletianic persecution, after spending two years in prison. Photius says that Pamphilus was a Phoenician born at Berytus, and a scholar of Pierius, who collected sacred literature. In Alexandria, Egypt, Pamphilus became devoted to the works of Origen of Alexandria. Photius quotes Pamphilus's Apology for Origen to the effect that Pamphilus went to Alexandria, where his teacher was Pierius, the head of the famous catechetical school there, before settling in Caesarea Maritima, where he was ordained a priest. This work also asserts that he gave all his property to the poor and attached himself to the "perfect men".

He was the friend and teacher of Eusebius of Caesarea, who recorded details of his career in a three-book Vita that has been lost.Įusebius' Martyrs of Palestine attests that Pamphilus was of a rich and honorable family of Beirut. Saint Pamphilus ( Greek: Πάμφιλος latter half of the 3rd century – February 16, 309 AD), was a presbyter of Caesarea and chief among the biblical scholars of his generation.