- male
- John the Baptist was a 1st century Jewish preacher and ascetic regarded as a prophet by four religions: Christianity, Islam, Mandaeanism, and the...
- male, deceased (348)
- Saint Pachomius (ca. 292-348), also known as Abba Pachomius and Pakhom, is generally recognized as the founder of cenobitic monasticism. His saint...
- male
- Christian monasticism was and continued to be a lay condition—monks depended on a local parish church for the sacraments. However, if the mo...
- male, deceased (420)
- Pelagius (ca. 354 - ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk and reformer who denied the doctrine of Original Sin from Adam and was declared a heretic by...
- male, deceased (50)
- Philo (20 BC - 50 AD), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judaeus And as Yedidia, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher born in...
- male
- Jovinian, or Jovinianus, the "Epicurus of Christianity" according to his enemy Saint Jerome, was condemned as a heretic at a synod convened in...
- male, deceased (826)
- Theodore the Studite, also called "St Theodore of Stoudios" or "St Theodore of Studium" (759 - 826), was a Byzantine monk and abbot of the Stoudios...
- male, deceased (345)
- Aphrahat was an Assyrian author of the fourth century from Persia, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of...
- male, deceased (383)
- Priscillian of Ávila (died 383), a theologian from Roman Gallaecia (in the Iberian Peninsula), was the first person in the history of Christianity t...
- male, deceased (435)
- Rabbula (or Rabbulas) was a bishop of Edessa (411 - August, 435), noteworthy for his opposition to the views of Theodore of Mopsuestia, as well as...
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