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• Council of NicaeaHistory

  The First Council of Nicaea was the first ecumenical council, convened at Nicaea in 325 by the Roman emperor Constantine I. It adopted a creed confessing that the Son is consubstantial with the Father and condemned the teaching of Arius.

• JeromePeople

  Jerome (c. 347–420) was a biblical scholar and Church Father of the ancient Western church. He translated the Latin Bible known as the Vulgate.

• Ignatius of AntiochPeople

  Ignatius of Antioch was bishop of the church in Antioch in the early second century. While being taken to Rome for martyrdom, he wrote seven letters. He is counted among the Apostolic Fathers.

• Church HistoryHistory

  Church history is the history of the church, or the academic discipline that studies that history. Eusebius's fourth-century Ecclesiastical History is regarded as the beginning of systematic writing in the field. Today church history is taught in seminaries as a branch of historical theology.

• Clement of RomePeople

  Clement of Rome was a leader of the church in Rome in the late first century and an Apostolic Father, known as the author of a letter to the church in Corinth commonly called 1 Clement. The Catholic Church counts him as the fourth pope.

• TherapeutaeHistory

  The Therapeutae were a Jewish ascetic and contemplative community that the first-century Jewish philosopher Philo described as living near Alexandria, Egypt. Because the fourth-century church historian Eusebius presented them as Christians, they were long discussed in connection with the origins of the monastic tradition.

• NovatianPeople

  Novatian was a third-century presbyter and theologian of the church at Rome. He took a rigorist position on whether to readmit those who had renounced the faith during persecution, broke with Cornelius, bishop of Rome, and formed a separate church community.

• OrigenPeople

  Origen (c. 185 – c. 253) was an early church theologian and biblical interpreter from Alexandria. He produced the Hexapla, a parallel edition of the Old Testament, and On First Principles, a systematic theological work, but some of his teachings were condemned after his death.

• HegesippusPeople

  Hegesippus was a second-century Christian writer who compiled the Memoirs, a collection of early church traditions. The original work is lost and survives only in fragments quoted in Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History.