Saint Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople, a great Father, and teacher of the Church, was born into a Christian family of eminent lineage in the year 329, at Arianzos. His father, also named Gregory, was Bishop of Nazianzus. His pious mother, ...
IT WAS THE INFLUENCE OF HIS PIOUS SISTER MACRINA THAT MADE HIM CONFIRM HIS EARLIER INCLINATION TO THE ASCETIC LIFE Basil was born of a distinguished family of Caesarea, the capital of Cappadocia, which was a province of Asia Minor of special importance in the...
St. Ignatius, otherwise known as Theophorus, which in Greek means "God-Bearer," led the Christian Church during a critical period of her history. Orthodox tradition had maintained that he was the little child Christ held on His lap when he spoke the...
St. Athanasius is the fourth century bishop known as "the father of orthodoxy" for his absolute dedication to the doctrine of Christ's divinity. He was born to Christian parents living in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in 296. His parents took ...
HE IS REGARDED AS A SAINT AND A CHURCH FATHER IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX, ORIENTAL ORTHODOX, CATHOLIC, ANGLICAN, AND LUTHERAN CHURCHES. St. Polycarp, Greek bishop of Smyrna. His name 'Polycarp' means 'much fruit' in Greek. He was baptized by St. ...
HE IS CLEMENT OF ROME Clement I is considered to be the first Apostolic Father of the Church. The Liber Pontificalis, which documents the reigns of popes, states that Clement presents the second in the line of bishops of Rome, with St. Peter as first. Clement...