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Also Known As Salamanes Hermeios Sozomenos
Born c.380 • Palestine
Died c.450 • Istanbul • Turkey
Subjects Of Study history of early Christianity
Palladius
Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
Socrates
Byzantine historian
George The Syncellus
Byzantine historian
St. Clement of Alexandria
Christian theologian
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
Byzantine theologian
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
St. Irenaeus
bishop of Lyon
St. Justin Martyr
Christian apologist
Saint Nilus of Ancyra
Greek abbot
St. Polycarp
Greek bishop
Aristides
Athenian philosopher
St. Dionysius of Alexandria
Christian theologian
Saint Nicephorus I
Greek Orthodox patriarch
St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
Greek Christian apostle
Hesychius Of Jerusalem
Eastern Orthodox monk
Diadochus Of Photice
theologian
Athenagoras
Greek Christian philosopher and apologist
Nicetas of Remesiana
bishop, theologian, and composer
Theognostus Of Alexandria
Greek theologian