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In the Catholic Church tradition, Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296 or 298 – 373), Basil of Caesarea (c. 330 – 379), Gregory of Nazianzus (329 – c. 390), and John Chrysostom (347–407) are four Greek Church Fathers each who are called the "Great Church Fathers", and in the Eastern Orthodox Church, three of these (Basil of Caesarea ...
The fathers set out to demonstrate that Christians could hold their own in conversations with learned Greek-speaking intellectuals and that Christian faith, while it was against many of the ideas of Plato and Aristotle (and other Greek philosophers), was an almost scientific and distinctive movement with the healing of the soul of man and his ...
2nd century: Alexander of Alexandria [4] 326 or 328 Alexander of Jerusalem [5] 251 Alexander of Lycopolis [6] 4th century Ambrose of Milan [7] 397: one of the Four Great Doctors of the Western Church; strongly opposed Arianism: Ammonius of Alexandria [8] 3rd century Amphilochius of Iconium [2] [4] 403 or earlier Ananias of Shirak [4] [9] 685
Those who wrote in Greek are called the Greek (Church) Fathers. Famous Greek Fathers of second century (other than the Apostolic Fathers) include: Irenaeus of Lyons and Clement of Alexandria. Irenaeus of Lyons (c.130–c.202 AD) was bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, which is now Lyons, France.
Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (Koinē Greek: Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας, Hágios Basíleios ho Mégas; Coptic: Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲓⲟⲥ, Piagios Basílios; 330 – 1 or 2 January 379), [8] was an early Roman Christian prelate who served as Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia from 370 until his death in 379.
Eusebius got his information about what texts were accepted by the third-century churches throughout the known world, a great deal of which Origen knew of firsthand from his extensive travels, from the library and writings of Origen. [19] On his deathbed, Origen had made a bequest of his private library to the Christian community in the city. [20]
It includes both the Eastern Fathers and those Western authors who wrote before Latin became predominant in the Western Church in the 3rd century, e.g. the early writings collectively known as the Apostolic Fathers, such as the First and Second Epistle of Clement, the Shepherd of Hermas, Eusebius, Origen, and the Cappadocian Fathers Basil the ...
Coptic icon of Anthony the Great. The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the Scetes desert of the Roman province of Egypt, beginning around the third century AD. The Apophthegmata Patrum is a collection of the wisdom of some of the early desert monks and nuns, in print as Sayings of the Desert Fathers.