40 Facts About Church Fathers

In traditional dogmatic theology, authors considered Church Fathers are treated as authoritative, and a somewhat restrictive definition is used.

The academic field of patristics, the study of the Church Fathers, has extended the scope of the term, and there is no definitive list.

Apostolic Church Fathers were Christian theologians who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, who are believed to have personally known some of the Twelve Apostles, or to have been significantly influenced by them.

Many of the writings derive from the same time period and geographical location as other works of early Christian literature that did come to be part of the New Testament, and some of the writings found among the Apostolic Church Fathers' seem to have been just as highly regarded as some of the writings that became the New Testament.

Church Fathers is the second after Clement to mention Paul's epistles.

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Church Fathers was martyred, alongside some of his students, and is considered a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

Church Fathers's writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology, and he is recognized as a saint by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

Church Fathers saw wisdom in Greek philosophy and sought to harmonize it with Christian doctrine.

Church Fathers developed a Christian Platonism and has been described by scholars as "the founder of what was to become the great tradition of Christian philosophical theology.

Church Fathers relocated to Caesarea Maritima and died there after being tortured during a persecution.

Church Fathers later became a controversial figure and some of his writings were condemned as heretical.

Church Fathers is remembered for his role in the conflict with Arianism and for his affirmation of the Trinity.

Chrysostom is known within Christianity chiefly as a preacher and theologian, particularly in the Eastern Orthodox Church Fathers; he is the patron saint of orators in the Roman Catholic Church Fathers.

Church Fathers was a central figure in the First Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Archbishop of Constantinople.

Church Fathers wrote numerous works expounding the Christian faith, and composed hymns which are still used both liturgically in Eastern Christian practice throughout the world as well as in western Lutheranism at Easter.

Church Fathers was born in Carthage, the son of a Roman centurion.

Church Fathers wrote three books in Greek and was the first great writer of Latin Christianity, thus sometimes known as the "Father of the Latin Church".

Church Fathers used the early church's symbol for fish—the Greek word for "fish" being ??T?S which is an acronym for ??s??? ???st??, Te?? ????, S?t??—to explain the meaning of baptism since fish are born in water.

Church Fathers was born in North Africa, probably at the beginning of the 3rd century, perhaps at Carthage, where he received an excellent classical education.

Church Fathers emphasized the necessity of the unity of Christians with their bishops, and the authority of the Roman See, which he claimed was the source of "priestly unity"'.

Church Fathers is counted as one of the four original doctors of the Church.

Church Fathers offered a new perspective on the theory of atonement.

Church Fathers wrote in defense of the Roman See's authority, and inaugurated use of Latin in the Mass, instead of the Koine Greek that was still being used throughout the Church in the west in the liturgy.

Church Fathers is recognised by the Roman Catholic Church as a Doctor of the Church.

Church Fathers framed the concepts of original sin and just war as they are understood in the West.

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Church Fathers was educated in North Africa and resisted his mother's pleas to become Christian.

Church Fathers later converted to Christianity, became a bishop, and opposed heresies, such as Pelagianism.

Church Fathers is known as Gregorius Dialogus in Eastern Orthodoxy because of the Dialogues he wrote.

Church Fathers was the first of the popes from a monastic background.

Church Fathers was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania.

Church Fathers was born in Persia around 270, but all his known works, the Demonstrations, come from later on in his life.

Church Fathers was an ascetic and celibate, and was almost definitely a son of the covenant.

Church Fathers was a near contemporary to the slightly younger Ephrem the Syrian, but the latter lived within the sphere of the Roman Empire.

Church Fathers's works are hailed by Christians throughout the world, and many denominations venerate him as a saint.

Church Fathers has been declared a Doctor of the Church in the Catholic Church.

Church Fathers is especially beloved in the Syriac Orthodox Church and in the Church of the East.

Church Fathers has been called the most significant of all of the fathers of the Syriac-speaking church tradition.

Church Fathers is regarded as a saint in the Church of the East, the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and among the Oriental Orthodox Churches, making him the last saint chronologically to be recognised by every apostolic Church.

Desert Church Fathers were early monastics living in the Egyptian desert.

Eastern Orthodox Church does not consider the age of Church Fathers to be over and includes later influential writers up to the present day.