Doctors of the Church

For the Roman Catholic church, a Doctors of the Church is a Théologie N or a monk of which writings or teaching are regarded as having been used the religion as exceptional way and in which the life is looked like specimen taking into consideration requirement of this one. This name is not equivalent to that of Père of the Church, which is reserved to the Masters of the very first centuries, and whose list is not besides officially not stopped. In addition, all the Doctorss of the Church are taken among the saints, which is not the case of certain Fathers (for example: Origène, Tertullien…)

Several Fathers of the Greek Church are recognized as Doctorss of the Church. In the list below, these Fathers are marked in Italic .

All the Doctorss of the Church were either canonized, or officially regarded as saints for oldest of them. Three women are recognized Doctorss of the Church.

List Doctorss of the Church

The Roman Catholic church recognizes 33 Doctorss of the Church who are the following, with (if it is known) the date on which they were proclaimed:

Four Latin Doctors of the tradition

Four Greek Doctors of the tradition

Doctors proclaimed by the Catholic church since the 16th century

See too

Related article

  • Father of the Church

External bonds

  • http://www.jesusmarie.com/ Site containing of much information on all the Doctorss of the Church, like some their downloadable writings.
  • Many writings of Doctorss of the Church in the catholic Library on line (12000 pages)

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