User:Presbyter Ioannes

The name, Presbyter Ioannes, originates from Latin. Presbyter is associated with the Greek word, "Episcopos", and in usual usage means bishop,chief priest or elder.Ioannes is the Latin name from which we derive the English name, John.

Bishop John, or Presbyter John, or Prester John, was a medieval Will O' The Wisp sometimes associated with the enigmatic Fisher-King of the Arthurian Legends,who was said to be a priest-king of a mythical Utopian country whose culture and society were so perfect in Christian morals and virtue, that all poverty, crime and vice were unknown there. Prester John was alleged to be gifted with immortality, had the power to heal all human diseases and infirmities by the touch of his hands (including Scrofula), and could even raise the dead to life again.

Prester John's country was the progenitor of many Medieval Traveler's Tales, and there were many serious quests to find its geographic location, but it was never found.