Eastern Fathers of the Church.(FATHERS OF THE CHURCH)

Catholic Insight | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

The author of I Clement 62.2 denoted the Apostles as Fathers. He thereby constricted the term's earlier general application to any religious teacher worthy of respect, and also paved the way for extending this title to bishops from the 2nd century on--Eusebius, Church History 5.4, quoting a Letter from the church of Lyons. It is Eusebius (Against Markellos 1.4.3) who first uses Father of Christian writers ranked second to the Apostles as authoritative, whence our terms Patristic/Patrology. It is soon found frequently in (e.g.) Basil (Ep. 52), Gregory Nazianzenus (Or. 33.5), ...

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