De Coelesti Hierarchia

Latin translation, 15th century

De Coelesti Hierarchia (Ancient Greek: Περὶ τῆς Οὐρανίας Ἱεραρχίας, romanized: Peri tēs Ouraníās Hierarchíās, "On the Celestial Hierarchy") is a Pseudo-Dionysian work on angelology, written in Greek and dated to ca. AD the 5th century; it exerted great influence on scholasticism and treats at great length the hierarchies of angels.

Editions

• Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, De Coelesti Hierarchia, Surrey, 1935. Shrine of Wisdom ISBN 978-0-90066-403-8.
• G. Heil, A. M. Ritter, Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. De Coelesti Hierarchia, De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia, De Mystica Theologia, Epistulae (1991) ISBN 978-3-11-012041-7.

See also

• Orthodox St. Dionysus Institute in Paris
• Christian angelic hierarchy
• Gregory Palamas
• Apophatic theology
• Hesychasm
• Seven archangels
• Vladimir Lossky

External links

• The Celestial Hierarchy – full text translated into English (1899)
• The Celestial Hierarchy (original Ancient Greek text)