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Edward R. Hardy
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LOCATION: Cambridge, United Kingdom

BIOGRAPHY

Lecturer in Early Church History, University of Cambridge, 1969–75. Professor of Church History, Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1947–69. Author of Christian Egypt: Church and People; editor of Christology of the Later Fathers; Faithful Witnesses.

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St. Basil, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
St. Basil the Great ; Western feast day January 2; Eastern feast day January 1) was an early Church Father who defended the orthodox faith against the Arian heresy. As bishop of Caesarea, he wrote several works on monasticism, theology, and canon law. He was declared a saint soon after his death.…
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