Early Church Fathers

Student of Peter and Paul, and bishop of Rome

Bishop of Smyrna, Hearer of John the Apostle

Bishop of Antioch, Student of John the Apostle

Convert, Wrote dialogue with Trypho, martyr for the faith

Student of Polycarp, engaged against many heresies

Hearer of Justin Martyr, went off the rails later in his life

From Rome, wrote the apostolic tradition

head of the Alexandrian school, aniconic, Wrote the Stratomata

Student of Clement of Alexandria, made huge leaps in theology, but consequently got some stuff wrong according to the church

Defender of Christianity, supposedly from Olympus

the miracle worker, good articulation of the consubstantial Trinity

Patriarch of Alexandria, Letters on theology and rebaptism, oppossed Sabellianism

fragments survive, tell us who wrote the gospels

He was a Christian Apologist. He wrote Plea for Christians, and On the ressurection,

From Africa, thought it was necessary to rebaptise converts, and the unity of the Church was essential

First person to use the term trinity, when refering to Father, Son and Holy Spirit