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{{Short description|none}}{{refimprove|date=November 2022}}The following is a list of Christian Church Fathers. Roman Catholics generally regard the Patristic period to have closed with the death of John of Damascus, a Doctor of the Church, in 749.{{cn|date=November 2022}} However, Orthodox Christians believe that the Patristic period is ongoing.{{cn|date=November 2022}} Therefore, the list is split into two tables.

Until John of Damascus

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		DATE=2013-04-01	JOURNAL=THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION	ISSUE=2	DOI=10.1086/669208	ISSN=0022-4189,	wrote a manual on the Antiochene method of Scriptural exegesis{{Citation	first=John	url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06001a.htm	year=1909	publisher=Robert Appleton Company |access-date=2008-01-29}}

Agrippa Castor{{cn>date=November 2022}}	2nd century

Pope Alexander I of Alexandria>Alexander of Alexandria{{Citation | last = Steenberg | first = M.C. | title = The Patristics Master List, Page 1 (A-I) | year = 2008 | url =weblink | accessdate = 2008-01-29 }}||326 or 328||

Alexander of Jerusalem{{cn>date=November 2022}}|251|

Alexander of Lycopolis{{cn>date=November 2022}}	4th century

Ambrose of Milan{{cn>date=November 2022}}	397	one of the Four Great Doctors of the Western Church; strongly opposed Arianism

Ammonius of Alexandria (Christian philosopher)>Ammonius of Alexandria{{cn|date=November 2022}}|3rd century|

Amphilochius of Iconium>	|

Anania Shirakatsi>Ananias of Shirak{{Citation | last = Pearse | first = Roger | title = Early Church Fathers: Additional Texts | year = 2007 | url =weblink | accessdate = 2008-01-29 }}||685||wrote a work on Christmas and one on Easter

Anastasius of Sinai>	|

Andrew of Caesarea>		Book of Revelation>Apocalypse

Andrew of Crete>	|author of the 250-strophe Great Canon

Anthony the Great>	|

Aphraates>	|Mesopotamian bishop who authored 23 homilies

Apollinaris Claudius>Apollinaris of Hierapolis{{cn		|

Apollinaris of Laodicea{{cn>date=November 2022}}	382

Apollinaris (the Elder)>Apollinaris the Elder{{cn		|

Apollonius of Ephesus{{cn>date=November 2022}}	after 210

Apringius>Apringius of Beja	6th century	commented on the Apocalypse{{Citation | last = Weinrich | first = William C. | title = Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament | year = 2005 | volume = VIII: Revelation }}

Archelaus (bishop of Carrhae)>	|supposedly a bishop of Carchar who wrote against Manichaeism

Aristides the Athenian>	|

Aristo of Pella>	|

Arnobius the Elder>Arnobius of Sicca	330	author of Against the Heathen

Arnobius the Younger{{cn>date=November 2022}}	460

Arsenius the Great>	|

Asterius of Amasea>	|wrote sermons on morality including topics like divorce and covetousness, and the parables of Jesus Christ

Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria>Athanasius the Great of Alexandria{{cn			Doctor of the Church>Four Great Doctors of the Eastern Church

Athenagoras of Athens>	|wrote in defense of the resurrection of the dead

Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople>Atticus	420s

Augustine of Hippo>		Doctor of the Church>Four Great Doctors of the Western Church (Doctor Gratiae)

Aurelius Prudentius>	|commented on the Psalms{{Citation | last = Wesselschmidt | first = Quentin F. | title = Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament | year = 2007 | volume = VIII: Psalms 51-150 }}

Ausonius{{cn>date=November 2022}}	395

Avitus of Vienne>	|author of the five-book poem De spiritualis historiae gestis; converted King Sigismund; combated Arianism

Barnabas>	|wrote a single Epistle

Barsanuphius of Palestine{{cn>date=November 2022}}	540

Basil of Caesarea>Basil the Great of Caesarea	379	one of the Four Great Doctors of the Eastern Church and one of the Three Holy Hierarchs; father of monachism

Bede>		Doctor of the Church and author of Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum>Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Benedict of Nursia>	|best known for the Rule of St Benedict

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius>Boethius	520s	author of Consolation of Philosophy

Braulio of Saragossa>Braulio of Zaragoza	651	commented on the Psalms

Caesarius of Arles>		Book of Revelation>Apocalypse

Caius (presbyter)>Caius	3rd century

Cassiodorus>	|

Chromatius>	|wrote sermons on the Gospel of Matthew

Clement of Alexandria>	|

Clement of Rome>	|

Coelius Sedulius>	|

Columba>Columba of Iona	597

Commodianus>	|

Cyprian>Cyprian of Carthage	258

Cyril of Alexandria>		Doctor of the Church (Doctor Incarnationis) combated the Nestorianism>Nestorian heresy

Cyril of Jerusalem>	|Doctor of the Church who wrote thorough instructions to catechumens and baptized Christians

Pope Damasus I>	|

Didymus the Blind>		Jerome and Tyrannius Rufinus>Rufinus; follower of Origen of Alexandria	; opponent of Arianism and the Macedonians (religious group)>Macedonian heresy; works condemned at the Second Council of Constantinople	and the Third Council of Constantinople>Sixth Ecumenical Council

Diodore of Tarsus>	|

Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth>Dionysius of Corinth	2nd century

Pope Dionysius>Pope Dionysius of Rome	268	combated Sabellianism

Dionysius the Areopagite>	|Secular scholars attribute writings in his name to Pseudo-Dionysius.

Pope Dionysius of Alexandria>Pope Dionysius the Great of Alexandria	265

Ephrem the Syrian>	|Doctor of the Church

Epiphanius of Salamis>		Jerome who strongly opposed Origen of Alexandria>Origenism and wrote a history of heresies

Eucherius of Lyon>	|

Eugippius>	|

Eusebius of Caesarea>	|

Eusebius of Emesa>		Book of Genesis>Genesis{hide}Citation | last = Sheridan | first = Mark | title = Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament | year = 2002 | volume = II: Genesis 12-50 {edih}

Eusebius of Vercelli>	|

Firmilian>	|

Fulgentius of Ruspe>	|

Gaius Marius Victorinus>	|combated Arianism

Gennadius of Massilia>	|

Pope Gregory I>Pope Gregory I the Great	604	one of the Doctor of the Church	and author of Dialogues (Pope Gregory)>Dialogues

Gregory of Nazianzus>		Doctor of the Church>Four Great Doctors of the Eastern Church; one of three Orthodox saints honored with the title "The Theologian;" one of the Three Holy Hierarchs

Gregory of Nyssa>	|

Gregory of Tours>	|

Gregory Thaumaturgus>	|

Hegesippus (chronicler)>Hegesippus of Palestine	180	a Jewish convert who combated Gnosticism and Marcionism

Hermias (apologist)>Hermias	3rd century

Hesychius of Jerusalem>	|

Hilary of Poitiers>	|Doctor of the Church

Hippolytus of Rome>	|

Ignatius of Antioch>	|

Irenaeus>	|

Isaac of Nineveh>		Psalms and contributed significantly to Syrian piety; was not Christologically Nestorianism>Nestorian{{Citation | last = Arendzen | first = J.P. | title = Isaac of Nineveh | publisher = Robert Appleton Company | year = 1910 | location = New York | volume = VIII | url =weblink | accessdate = 2008-01-31 }}

Isidore of Pelusium>	|author of 2000 letters dealing primarily with allegorical exegesis

Isidore of Seville>	|Doctor of the Church

|Jacob of Serugh{{Citation }}||521||a.k.a. Mar Jacob

Jerome>		Doctor of the Church>Four Great Doctors of the Western Church

John Cassian>	|

John Chrysostom>		Doctor of the Church>Four Great Doctors of the Eastern Church and one of the Three Holy Hierarchs

John Climacus>	|

John of Damascus>		Doctor of the Church and author of An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith and ascetic and exegetical writings and hymns; Peter Lombard based his Sentences>Four Books of Sentences on the works of John of Damascus and Thomas Aquinas based his Summa Theologica on Peter Lombard's Sentences

Julianus Pomerius>	|author of De Vita Contemplativa concerning Christian sanctity

Julius Firmicus Maternus>	|

Justin Martyr>	|

Juvencus>	|

Lactantius>	|

Pope Leo I>Pope Leo I the Great	461	Doctor of the Church

Leontius of Byzantium>	|

Lucian of Antioch>	|

Saint Lucifer>Lucifer	370	combated Arianism and defended Athanasius at the Council of Milan in 354

Macarius of Alexandria>	|

Macarius of Egypt>	|

Malchion>	|played key role in the deposition of Paul of Samosata

Marcus Minucius Felix>	|author of Octavianus

Marius Mercator>	|made a compilation on Nestorianism and another on Pelagianism

Martin of Braga>	|commented on the Psalms

Martin of Tours>	|

Epistle to Diognetus>Mathetes	2nd century?	author of an Epistle to Diognetus

Maximus of Turin>	|

Maximus the Confessor>	|

Meletius of Antioch>	|

Melito of Sardis>		On Pascha about the Resurrection appearances of Jesus>Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Methodius of Olympus>		Origen of Alexandria>Origenism

Moses of Chorene>	|author of A History of Armenia

Archbishop Nectarius of Constantinople>Nectarius of Constantinople	397

Nemesius of Emesa>Nemesius	390

Nicetas of Remesiana>	|the patron saint of Romania commented on the Psalms

Nilus of Sinai>	|

Nonnus>	|

Novatian>	|commented on the Psalms

Oecumenius>		Greek language>Greek commentary on the Apocalypse

Saint Optatus>Optatus	4th century	combated Donatism

Origen of Alexandria>		Second Council of Constantinople>Fifth Ecumenical Council (553)

Paulus Orosius>Orosius	418

Pachomius>	|Father of Christian cenobitic monasticism

Pacian>Pacian of Barcelona	391	combated Novatianism

Palladius of Helenopolis>	|

Pamphilus of Caesarea>	|

Pantaenus>	|first to make the Catechetical school of Alexandria famous

Papias of Hierapolis>Papias	163	disciple of John the Evangelist and Ariston

Saint Patrick>Patrick	5th century

Paulinus of Nola>	|

Peter Chrysologus>	|Doctor of the Church

Pope Peter I of Alexandria>Pope Peter of Alexandria	311

		Jerome,HTTPS://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=WOTLAWAAQBAJ&Q=COMMENTARII+IN+LIBRUM+JOB+PHILLIP+PRIEST&PG=PA42	LAST=VICCHIO	DATE=2006-10-04	ISBN=9781597525336, en, commented on the Book of Job

Philoxenus of Hierapolis>	|author of 13 ascetic discourses who combated Nestorianism, Manichaeism, and Marcionism

Poemen>	|commented on the Psalms

Polycarp>	|Wrote a single Epistle to the Philippians

Proclus of Constantinople>	|

Prohaeresius>	|

Prosper of Aquitaine>	|

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite>		The Divine Names, The Mystical Theology, De Coelesti Hierarchia>The Celestial Hierarchy, The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and the non-extant Theological Outlines; quoted extensively in the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas

Quadratus of Athens>	|wrote a non-extant apology to Emperor Hadrian

|Rabbula{{Citation }}||435||ascetic and energetic bishop of Edessa and ally of Cyril of Alexandria who opposed the heretical teachings of Nestorius

Rhodo>Rhodon|after 192|

Romanus the Melodist>	|

Sahdona>	|commented on the Psalms

Salvian>	|Gallic author of On the government of God

Severian of Gabala>		Book of Genesis>Genesis and the First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians

Severus of Antioch>	|

Sextus Julius Africanus>	|

Sidonius Apollinaris>	|

Socrates of Constantinople>	|

Sophronius of Jerusalem>	|

Sozomen>	|

Sulpicius Severus>	|disciple and biographer of Martin of Tours and author of an Ecclesiastical History

Synesius>Synesius of Cyrene	414

Tatian>	|

Tertullian>		Montanism>Montanist, First of the Latin Fathers

Theodore of Mopsuestia>		Acts of the Apostles and the First Epistle to the Corinthians>First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians

Theodoret>Theodoret of Cyrus	458	continuator of Eusebius of Caesarea

Theodotus of Ancyra (martyr)>Theodotus of Ancyra	5th century

Theophilus of Antioch>		Trinity to describe the God the Father>Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

Theotimus>	|

Tichonius>		Book of Revelation>Apocalypse; his seven principles of interpretation from his Book of Rules inspired Augustine of Hippo

Tyrannius Rufinus>	|friend of Jerome and continuator of Eusebius of Caesarea who commented on the Psalms

	|commented on the Psalms

Venantius Fortunatus>	|wrote a poem on Easter

		John Chrysostom,HTTPS://WWW.BIBLICALCYCLOPEDIA.COM/V/VICTOR-OF-ANTIOCH.HTML	WEBSITE=MCCLINTOCK AND STRONG BIBLICAL CYCLOPEDIA ONLINE	ACCESS-DATE=2019-06-18, commented on the Gospel of Mark

Victorinus of Pettau>	|author of On the Creation of the World and a Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John

Vincent of Lérins>	|

Zeno of Verona>	|

Pope Zephyrinus>	|commented on the Psalms

After John of Damascus

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Athanasius the Athonite>	|

|Gregory Palamas{{Citation }}||1359||Pillar of Orthodoxy and defender of Hesychasm

Ishodad of Merv>	|commented on the Book of Job

Innocent of Alaska>		The Way Into the Kingdom of Heaven is often used as an Eastern Orthodox Church>Orthodox catechism

Mark of Ephesus>	|Pillar of Orthodoxy

Martin Luther>	|Pillar of Lutheranism and Protestantism, writer of Book of Concord, and consider saint and reformer by Protestants

Nicholas Cabasilas>	|

Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople>Photius the Great	893	Pillar of Orthodoxy and author of Bibliotheca

Symeon Metaphrastes>	|

Symeon the New Theologian>		Eastern Orthodox Church>Orthodox saints honored with the title "The Theologian"

Theodore the Studite>	|

Theophan the Recluse>	|

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

{{Reflist}}

External links

• Fathers of the Church (Catholic Encyclopedia)
• Monachos Patristics Master List
• Writings of Church Fathers from NewAdvent

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