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Peter Brown was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1935, to a Scots-Irish Protestant family. Until 1939, he spent winter and spring each year in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where his father worked as a railway engineer based at Khartoum. For the rest of the year, he would return with his mother to Bray, in County Wicklow, near Dublin. Following the ...
Peter Brown was born on 8 November 1947, in Greymouth, New Zealand, the youngest child of William and Mary (Sweeney) Brown. [1] He attended Marist Brothers primary and secondary schools, then worked in secular jobs. On February 16, 1969, Brown professed his first vows as a member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.
On Friday, May 31, 2013, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop John Quinn Weitzel, and appointed Peter Brown, the Regional Superior of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer also known as the Redemptorist Congregation in New Zealand, as bishop-elect of the diocese of Samoa–Pago Pago. Brown was ordained as a bishop on August 22 ...
Historian Peter Brown, in his The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, argued that one cannot equate the ancient cults of pagan gods with the later cults of the saints. [1]
Peter Douglas Brown (born 1925), historian of eighteenth-century British politics Peter Brown (bishop) (born 1947), New Zealand-born Catholic bishop in American Samoa Peter J. Brown (born 1963), U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral and Homeland Security Adviser
According to Peter Brown: "The belief that Late Antiquity witnessed the death of paganism and the triumph of monotheism, ... is not actual history but is, instead, a "representation" of the history of the age created by "a brilliant generation of Christian writers, polemicists and preachers in the last decade of this period". [23]
Pages in category "Historians of the Catholic Church" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Crisis of the Third Century (AD 235–284), was a period of heavy barbarian invasions and migrations into Roman territory. [4]: 19, 22 According to Peter Brown, imperial Rome's system of government was an easy–going system which governed indirectly through the regional, local elites, and was not built to survive the strain of continuous invasions and civil wars.