The Catechetical School of Alexandria was a school of Christian theologians and bishops and deacons in Alexandria. The teachers and students of the school were influential in many of the early theolog
Jerome of Stridon, also known as Hieronymus, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.
School of Alexandria
…one of the two major centers of the study of biblical exegesis and theology during Late Antiquity, the other being the School of Antioch. According to Jerome the Alexandrian school was founded by John Mark the Apostle. The earliest recorded dean was supposedly Athenagoras (176) who was then succeeded by…
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)