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List Of Church Fathers
The following is a list of Christian Church Fathers. Roman Catholics generally regard the Patristic period to have ended with the death of John of Damascus in 749. However, Orthodox Christians believe that the Patristic period is ongoing. Therefore, the list is split into two tables. Until John of Damascus After John of Damascus See also * ''Ante-Nicene Fathers (book)'' * Apostolic Fathers * Cappadocian Fathers * Church Fathers * Desert Fathers * Doctors of the Church * List of early Christian writers * ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'' * Patristics * Patrologia Graeca * Patrologia Latina * Patrologia Orientalis * Three Holy Hierarchs Notes and references External linksFathers of the Church (Catholic Encyclopedia) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, which states that Jesus in Christianity, Jesus is the Son of God (Christianity), Son of God and Resurrection of Jesus, rose from the dead after his Crucifixion of Jesus, crucifixion, whose coming as the Messiah#Christianity, messiah (Christ (title), Christ) was Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament, prophesied in the Old Testament and chronicled in the New Testament. It is the Major religious groups, world's largest and most widespread religion with over 2.3 billion followers, comprising around 28.8% of the world population. Its adherents, known as Christians, are estimated to make up a majority of the population in Christianity by country, 157 countries and territories. Christianity remains Christian culture, culturally diverse in its Western Christianity, Western and Eastern Christianity, Eastern branches, and doctrinally diverse concerning Justification (theology), justification and the natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easter
Easter, also called Pascha ( Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary . It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. Easter-observing Christians commonly refer to the last week of Lent, before Easter, as Holy Week, which in Western Christianity begins on Palm Sunday (marking the entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem), includes Spy Wednesday (on which the betrayal of Jesus is mourned), and contains the days of the Easter Triduum including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. In Eastern Christianity, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archelaus (bishop Of Carrhae)
Archelaus may refer to: Historical persons * Archelaus (alchemist), author of a long poem in iambics called "Περὶ τῆς ῾Ιερᾶς Τέχνης" * Archelaus (geographer), author of a work on the countries visited by Alexander the Great *Archelaus, rhetorician mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius (2.17) * Archelaus of Sparta (r. 790–760 BC), Agiad king of Sparta * Archelaus (philosopher) (fl. 5th century BC), pupil of Anaxagoras * Archelaus of Macedon (r. 413–399 BC), king of Macedon * Archelaus (son of Amyntas III) (d. 359 BC), half-brother of Philip II of Macedonia * Archelaus (son of Androcles) (fl. 321 BC), phrourarch of Aornus * Archelaus (phrourarch) (fl. 326 BC), phrourarch of Tyre * Archelaus of Priene (fl. c. 300 BC), an ancient Greek sculptor * Archelaus Chersonesita (fl. 3rd century BC), Egyptian epigrammatist * Archelaus (Pontic army officer) (died 63 BC), general of Mithridates VI of Pontus * Archelaus (high priest of Comana Cappadocia) (died 55 BC), priest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apringius
Apringius of Beja was a sixth-century Latin Church Father who wrote a commentary on the Book of Revelation. Only fragments of his commentary survive.M.L.W. Laistner, ''Thought and Letters in Western Europe: A.D. 500 to 900'', second edition (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1957), p. 116 See also * List of Church Fathers Notes Further reading * Apringio de Beja. ''Comentario al Apocalipsis de Apringio de Beja''. Ed. Alberto del Campo Hernández. Institución San Jerónimo 25. EstellaEditorial Verbo Divino, 1991. * Gryson, Roger (ed.). ''Commentaria minora in Apocalypsin Johannis''. Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 107. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003. * Weinrich, William C. (ed.). ''Revelation''. Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture 12. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press Founded in 1947, InterVarsity Press (IVP) is a Christian publisher located in Lisle, Illinois. IVP focuses on publishing Christian books and digital resources that discuss influential cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollonius Of Ephesus
Apollonius of Ephesus (; fl. 180–210) was an anti-Montanist Greek ecclesiastical writer, probably from Asia Minor. He was thoroughly acquainted with the Christian history of Ephesus and the doings of the Phrygian Montanists. The unknown author of ''Praedestinatus'' says he was a Bishop of Ephesus. However, the lack of support from other Christian writers makes this testimony doubtful. He undertook the defense of the Church against Montanus, and followed in the footsteps of Zoticus of Comanus, Julian of Apamaea, Sotas of Anchialus, and Apollinaris of Hierapolis. His work is cited by Eusebius, and is praised by Jerome, but has been lost, and not even its title is known. It most likely argued the falsity of the Montanist prophecies and recounted the lives of Montanus and his prophets. It also gave currency to the report of their suicide by hanging, and threw light on some of the adepts of the sect, including the apostate Themison, and the pseudo-martyr Alexander. Themison, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollinaris (the Elder)
Apollinaris the Elder or Apollinarius (), was a Christian grammarian of the 4th century, first in Berytus (now Beirut) in Phoenicia, then in Laodicea in Syria. He was the father of Apollinaris of Laodicea. Biography Apollinaris became a priest, and was among the staunchest upholders of the Council of Nicaea (325) and of Athanasius. When the Emperor Julian forbade Christian professors to lecture or comment on the poets or philosophers of Greece in 362, Apollinaris and his son both strove to replace the literary masterpieces of antiquity by new works which should offset the threatened loss to Christians of the advantages of polite instruction and help to win respect for the Christian religion among non-Christians. According to Socrates of Constantinople (''Historia Ecclesiastica'', II, xlvi; III, xvi), the elder Apollinaris translated the Pentateuch into Greek hexameters, converted the first two books of Kings into an epic poem of twenty-four cantos, wrote tragedies modelled on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollinaris Of Laodicea
Apollinaris the Younger, also known as Apollinaris of Laodicea and Apollinarius (; died 382), was a bishop of Latakia, Laodicea in Syria. He is best known as a noted opponent of Arianism. Apollinaris's eagerness to emphasize the Godhead in Christianity, deity of Jesus and the unity of his person led him to deny the existence of a rational human soul (spirit), soul in Christ's human nature. This view came to be called Apollinarism. It was condemned by the First Council of Constantinople in 381. Life He collaborated with his father, Apollinaris (the Elder), Apollinaris the Elder, in reproducing the Old Testament in the form of Homeric and Pindaric poetry and the New Testament after the fashion of Platonic dialogues, when the emperor, Julian (emperor), Julian, had forbidden Christians to teach the classics. He is best known, however, as a noted opponent of Arianism. Apollinaris's eagerness to emphasize the Godhead in Christianity, deity of Jesus and the unity of his person led him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollinaris Claudius
Saint Apollinaris Claudius (Greek: Απολλινάριος Κλαύδιος), otherwise Apollinaris of Hierapolis or Apollinaris the Apologist, was a Christian leader and writer of the 2nd century. Life He was Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia and became famous for his polemical treatises against the heretics of his day, whose errors he showed to be entirely borrowed from the pagans. In 177 he published an ''"Apologia"'' for the Christians, addressed to Marcus Aurelius, and appealing to the Emperor's own experience with the " Thundering Legion", whose prayers won him the victory over the Quadi. The exact date of his death is not known, but it was probably while Marcus Aurelius was still Emperor. Nothing survives of his writings except for a few extracts, the longest of which relates to the date of Passover. Eusebius Eusebius of Caesarea (30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist from the Roman prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq and forms the eastern geographic boundary of the modern Middle East. Just beyond it lies southwestern Iran, where the region transitions into the Iranian plateau, Persian plateau, marking the shift from the Arab world to Iran. In the broader sense, the historical region of Mesopotamia also includes parts of present-day Iran (southwest), Turkey (southeast), Syria (northeast), and Kuwait. Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BC. It has been identified as having "inspired some of the most important developments in human history, including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops, the development of cursive script, mathematics, astronomy, and agriculture". It is recognised as the cradle of some of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphraates
Aphrahat (c. 280–c. 345; , ''Ap̄rahaṭ'', , , , and Latin ''Aphraates''), venerated as Saint Aphrahat the Persian, was a third-century Syriac Christian author of Iranian descent from the Sasanian Empire, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine and practice. All his known works, the ''Demonstrations'', come from later on in his life. He was an ascetic and celibate, and was almost definitely a son of the covenant (an early Syriac form of communal monasticism). He may have been a bishop, and later Syriac tradition places him at the head of Mar Mattai Monastery near Mosul in what is now northern Iraq. He was a near contemporary to the slightly younger Ephrem the Syrian, but the latter lived within the sphere of the Roman Empire. Called the ''Persian Sage'' (, ''Ḥakkimā Pārsāyā''), Aphrahat witnessed to the concerns of the early church beyond the eastern boundaries of the Roman Empire. Life, history and identity Aphrah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony The Great
Anthony the Great (; ; ; ; – 17 January 356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony, such as , by various epithets: , , , , , and . For his importance among the Desert Fathers and to all later Christian monasticism, he is also known as the . His feast day is celebrated on 17 January among the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches and on Tobi 22 in the Coptic calendar. The biography of Anthony's life by Athanasius of Alexandria helped to spread the concept of Christian monasticism, particularly in Western Europe via its Latin translations. He is often erroneously considered the first Christian monk, but as his biography and other sources make clear, there were many ascetics before him. Anthony was, however, among the first known to go into the wilderness (about AD 270), which seems to have contributed to his renown. Accounts of Anthony enduring supernatural temptation during his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Of Crete
Andrew of Crete (, c. 650 – July 4, 712 or 726 or 740), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was an 8th-century bishop, theologian, homilist,A list of forty of his discourses, together with twenty-one edited sermons, is given in ''Patrologia Graeca'', XCVII, 801-1304. and hymnographer. He is venerated as a saint in both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. Life Born in Damascus c. 650, to Christian parents, Andrew was mute until the age of seven. According to his hagiography, hagiographers, he was miraculously cured after receiving Holy Communion. He began his ecclesiastical career at fourteen in the Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified, near Jerusalem, where he quickly gained the notice of his superiors. Theodore, the ''locum tenens'' of the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Patriarchate of Jerusalem (745–770) made him his Archdeacon, and sent him to the imperial capital of Constantinople as his official representative at the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680–681 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
