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Which father was born in 354?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father was a patriarch of Constantinople?

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John Chrysostom

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What does Chrysostom mean?

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Golden-tongued

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Under which father did the school of Antioch peak?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father discerned his call to live as a solitary by 374?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father was ordained a deacon in 381 and a priest in 386?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father reformed the clergy in his patriarchy?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father was the foe of the empress Eudoxia?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father was the enemy of the Archbishop of Alexandria, Theophilus?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father was exiled to Armenia in 404?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father died on route to his exile in the Wilderness on the Black sea?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father died in 407?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father is the patron of preachers?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father has the most biographers?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father abandoned law to become an ascetic?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father built hospitals and showed great concern for the poor?

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John Chrysostom

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Which father said, “Do not conspire to make him [your son] a politician, but train him instead to be a philosopher.”

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John Chrysostom

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Which father was a successor to St. Athanasius?

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St. Cyril of Alexandria

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Which father was born around 375?

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St. Cyril of Alexandria

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Which father was the nephew of a prominent priest named Theophilus?

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St. Cyril of Alexandria

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Which father was a patriarch of Alexandria?

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St. Cyril of Alexandria

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Who rejected the title, “Mother of God,” applied to Mary?

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Nestorius

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Which father fought Nestorius?

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St. Cyril of Alexandria

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At which council was Nestorius defeated?

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The council of Ephesus

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When was Nestorius defeated?
431
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Which father was an "inexhaustible teacher and writer?"
St. Cyril of Alexandria
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Recent studies by Robert Luis Wilken and John Anthony McGuikin have vindicated which father?
St. Cyril of Alexandria
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Which father died in 444?
St. Cyril of Alexandria
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About which father are few biographical details known?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
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Which father was Persian?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
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Which father was ordained a bishop and took the name Jacob?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
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Which father wrote "Demonstrations?"
St. Aphrahat the Sage
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Which father is known as the first witness of auricular confession?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
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' Which father defended the Christian''s use of Old Testament but denial of ceremonial laws?'
St. Aphrahat the Sage
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Which father was born in 270?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
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Which father died in 345?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
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Which father was born in 310?
St. Hilary
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Which father died in 369?
St. Hilary
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Which father was born in Poitiers?
St. Hilary
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Which father was exiled after defending the council of Nicaea?
St. Hilary
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Which father was exiled in the east?
St. Hilary
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Which father is known as the Athanasius of the west?
St. Hilary
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Which father is known as the "Hammer of the Arians"?
St. Hilary
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Which father, while in exile analyzed the disputes over the trinity by Eastern Arian Bishops and determined that the problems mainly stemmed from a misunderstanding of language?
St. Hilary
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Which father was invited to the Synod of Seleucia in 359?
St. Hilary
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Which father was born in 347?
St. Jerome
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Which father died in 420?
St. Jerome
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Which father was irascible to a comic extreme?
St. Jerome
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' Which father was called, "God''s angry man"?'
St. Jerome
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Which father grew up in Dalmatia (what is now Croatia)?
St. Jerome
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Which father went off to study grammar in Rome at age 12?
St. Jerome
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'A chance encounter with St. Gregory renewed which father''s appreciation for Origen''s allegorical readings of scripture?'
St. Jerome
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Which father had a dream in which he was told that he was a follower of Cicero?
St. Jerome
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Which father was an aide to Pope Damasus?
St. Jerome
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Which father was commissioned to revise the Latin (Vulgate) edition of the four Gospels?
St. Jerome
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Which father won renown as a spiritual director?
St. Jerome
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Which father was confident that he would succeed Damasus as the next Pope?
St. Jerome
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Which father set up a monastic community in Bethlehem?
St. Jerome
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Which father was briefly excommunicated?
St. Jerome
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Which father wrote an encyclopedia of Christian Biography?
St. Jerome
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Which father fought the heresy of Pelagianism?
St. Jerome
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Which father had a, "lack of tact, sharp tongue and high-strung temper" that made in difficult to get along with?
St. Jerome
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Which father was often asked to leave, including by his own monastic community?
St. Jerome
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Which father was a lover of classical literature?
St. Jerome
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Which heresy says that we can achieve salvation through our own power?
Pelagianism
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Which father was born in 354?
St. Augustine
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Which father died in 430?
St. Augustine
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Which father was, "the most influential theologian in the history of the western church"?
St. Augustine
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' Which father is the most-cited individual in the church''s dogmatic pronouncements?'
St. Augustine
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Which father was the great synthesizer of the Classical and Patristic Eras?
St. Augustine
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Which father wrote "Confessions"?
St. Augustine
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Which father wrote, "The City of God"?
St. Augustine
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Which father wrote, "On the Trinity"?
St. Augustine
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Which father was born in Tagaste, North Africa?
St. Augustine
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Which father went to the city of Carthage to study law (then literature and philosophy) at the age of 16?
St. Augustine
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Which father at one point began to identify himself with the Manichean heresy?
St. Augustine
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Which father was a teacher of rhetoric?
St. Augustine
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' Which father was attracted by Bishop Ambrose''s peace?'
St. Augustine
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Which father became a bishop of Hippo?
St. Augustine
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Which father is credited with giving death blows to the heresies of Manicheanism, Donatism, and Pelagianism, and with welcoming home the Tertullinaists and Montanists?
St. Augustine

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