Church Fathers
Videos
The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who established the intellectual and doctrinal foun
The Church Fathers, an 11th-century Kievan Rus' miniature from Svyatoslav's miscellany
The Three Holy Hierarchs of the Eastern Church: Basil of Caesarea (left), John Chrysostom (center) and Gregory of Nazianzus (right)
St. Athanasius, depicted with a gospel book, an iconographic symbol used mostly for priests and bishops as preachers of the gospel
The four Great Latin Fathers. From the left: Augustine of Hippo, Pope Gregory I, Jerome, and Ambrose.
Jerome
Videos
Jerome of Stridon, also known as Hieronymus, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.
Church Fathers
…the Assumption of Mary. Those fathers who wrote in Latin are called the Latin (Church) Fathers. In the Catholic Church tradition, Ambrose (AD 340–397), Jerome (347–420), Augustine of Hippo (354–430), and Pope Gregory I (540–604) are four Latin Church Fathers who are called the "Great Church Fathers". Quintus…
Saint Jerome by Matthias Stom, 1635
St. Jerome in His Study (1480), by Domenico Ghirlandaio
St Jerome in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
St. Jerome in the Desert, by Giovanni Bellini (1505)