Hypsistos

Local tutelary god. Greco-Roman. Known from the region of the Bosphorus circa 150 BC until AD As late as the fourth century AD there are mentions in texts of hypsistarii in Cappadocia, who seem to have been unorthodox, Greek-speaking, Jewish fringe sectarians. The word hypsistos occurs in the Septuagint version of the Vetus Testamentum and means “almighty.”