This invaluable reference compiled by top scholars covers 8 centuries of the Christian church and addresses such topics as archaeology, art and architecture, biography, culture, doctrine, ecclesiology, geography, history, philosophy, and theology.

Table of Contents

• Preface to the Second English Edition
• Preface to the Second Italian Edition (2006)
• Preface to the First Italian Edition (1983)
• A Note on Using the Encyclopedia
• Contributors
• Biblical Abbreviations
• Bibliographical Abbreviations
• A
• AARON (iconography)
• ABA (mar) (4th c.)
• ABA I (mar)
• ABADDON (Heb. ǍBADDŌN)
• ABANDONED and EXPOSED CHILDREN
• ABBOT - ABBESS
• ABDIAS of Babylon (late 6th c.)
• ABDON and SENNEN
• ABDUCTION
• ABEL
• ABELITES
• ABERCIUS (late 2nd c.)
• ABGAR
• ABIBUS DOLICHENUS (ABIBUS [HABIB] of DOLICHE) (d. after 435)
• ABITINA, Martyrs of
• ABLABIUS (d. 338)
• ABORTION
• ABRAHAM
• ABRAHAM bar Dashandad (3rd c.)
• ABRAHAM bar Lipeh (7th c.)
• ABRAHAM of Albatanzi
• ABRAHAM of Beth Rabban (6th c.)
• ABRAHAM of Beyt Qiduna (or Qidunaya) (4th c.?)
• ABRAHAM of Clermont (d. ca. 477)
• ABRAHAM of Ephesus
• ABRAHAM of Harran (Mesopotamia), bishop (4th-5th c.)
• ABRAHAM of Kashkar (al-Wasit), *hegumen (d. 586)
• ABRAHAM of Nathpar (d. 570/575)
• ABRAHAM of Pbou (d. ca. 580)
• ABRAHAM the Confessor (d. after 463)
• ABRASAX (Άβρασάξ, transcribed by the Latin authors as Abraxas)
• ABUNDIUS (or Abundantius) of Como (d. 489)
• ACACIANS(oί περί Άκάκιον)
• ACACIUS
• ACACIUS of Beroea (d. ca. 433)
• ACACIUS of Caesarea (d. 365)
• ACACIUS of Constantinople (Acacian schism) (d. 489)
• ACACIUS of Melitene (d. 438/449)
• ACACIUS of Seleucia (d. 496/497)
• ACATHISTUS
• ACCLAMATIONS, Liturgical
• ACCUSATIONS against Christians
• ACEDIA
• ACEPHALI
• ACESIUS (d. after 325)
• ACHAIA
• ACHEIROPOIETA
• ACHILLAS (d. 312)
• ACHILLAS (d. after 324)
• ACHILLEUS (first half 5th c.)
• ACHOLIUS (d. 383)
• ACILIUS GLABRIO (ca. 40-ca. 95)
• ACILIUS SEVERUS (d. after 326)
• ACOEMETAE or Akoimetoi (sleepless ones)
• ACOLUTHIA
• ACROSTICS
• ACTISTETAE
• ACTS AND CANONS, CONCILIAR
• ACTS of the COUNCIL of CAESAREA
• ADAM and EVE
• ADAMANTIUS
• ADAMITAE (Adamiani). *
• ADAMNAN (or Adomnán) (d. 704)
• ADDAI (or Addaeus)
• ADEODATUS (372-389/391)
• ADEODATUS I (or Deusdedit), pope (615-618)
• ADEODATUS II, pope (672-676)
• ADIABENE
• ADIMANTUS the Manichean (3rd c)
• ADOPTIONISTS
• ADULTERY
• AENEAS of Gaza (d. after 518)
• AEON
• AERIUS (300-375)
• AETHICUS of Istria (6th c.?)
• AETHILWALD (d. after 705)
• AETIUS Flavius (ca. 390-454)
• AETIUS of Antioch (d. ca. 365)
• AETIUS of Constantinople (5th c.)
• AFRICA
• AGAPE
• AGAPE, CHIONIA and IRENE (d. 304)
• AGAPETI - AGAPETAE
• AGAPETUS, deacon (ca. 6th c)
• AGAPETUS I, pope (535-536)
• AGATHA (d. 250)
• AGATHANGELOS
• AGATHO, pope (678-681)
• AGATHONICE and companions (d. 161/180)
• AGATHONICUS of Tarsus (5th c.)
• AGDE, Council of
• AGELIUS of Constantinople (d. after 384)
• AGILULF (d. 616)
• AGNELLUS (ca. 486-569)
• AGNES (d. 250)
• AGNOETAE
• AGNUS DEI
• AGRAECIUS (d. ca. 487)
• AGRAPHON
• AGRESTIUS (5th c.)
• AGRICIUS (d. ca. 332)
• AGRIPPA I, or Herod Agrippa (10/9 BC–AD 44)
• AGRIPPA II (ca. 28–ca. 92)
• AGRIPPA CASTOR (2nd c.)
• AGRIPPINUS of Carthage (d. after 220)
• AGRIUSTIA the African (4th-5th c.)
• AIDAN of Lindisfarne (d. 651)
• AILERAN the Wise (d. 665)
• AITHALLA of Edessa (d. 345/348)
• AKSUM (Axum)
• ALARIC I (ca. 370–410)
• ALBAN of Verulamium (d. 303)
• ALBANIA of Caucasus
• ALBINA (4th c.)
• ALDHELM (639–709)
• ALEATORIBUS, De
• ALEPPO (Beroea)
• ALEXANDER I, pope (105–115)
• ALEXANDER of Alexandria (d. 17 April 328)
• ALEXANDER of Antioch
• ALEXANDER of Apamea (d. after 434)
• ALEXANDER of Aphrodisias (2nd-3rd c)
• ALEXANDER of Constantinople (d. 337)
• ALEXANDER of Cyprus (6th c.)
• ALEXANDER of Hierapolis (d. ca. 434)
• ALEXANDER of Jerusalem (d. 250)
• ALEXANDER of Lycopolis (3rd-4th c.)
• ALEXANDER of Thessalonica (d. after 335)
• ALEXANDER SEVERUS (208-235)
• ALEXANDER the Acoemete (d. ca. 430)
• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIANS, Letter to the
• ALEXIUS (4th c.)
• ALLEGORY - TYPOLOGY
• ALMACHIUS (or Telemachus) (d. ca. 400)
• ALMS – ALMSGIVING
• ALOGI
• ALPHA and OMEGA
• ALTAR of VICTORY
• ALTERCATIO ADRIANI ET EPICTETI
• ALTERCATIO CONTRA EOS
• ALTERCATIO DE ANIMA
• ALTERCATIO ECCLESIAE ET SYNAGOGAE
• ALTERCATIO HERACLIANI
• ALTERCATIONES
• ALYPIUS (d. after 428)
• AMA (Amma)
• AMANDUS (d. 676-684)
• AMANDUS of Bordeaux (4th-5th c.)
• AMASEA of Pontus (Άμάσεια)
• AMASTRIS (“Αμαστρις)
• AMATORIUM CANTICUM
• AMBROSE (d. ca. 250)
• AMBROSE (4th c.)
• AMBROSE of Milan (337?-397)
• AMBROSIAN LITURGY
• AMBROSIASTER (d. after 384)
• AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS (ca. 335–400)
• AMMON (4th c.)
• AMMON of Adrianople (d. after 394)
• AMMONAS (4th c.)
• AMMONIUS (5th-6th c.)
• AMMONIUS of Alexandria (6th c.)
• AMMONIUS Saccas (2nd-3rd c.)
• AMMONIUS the ALEXANDRIAN (5th-6th c)
• AMMONIUS the MONK (4th c.)
• AMPHILOCHIUS of Iconium (b. 340/345, bishop 373/374–398/404)
• AMPHILOCHIUS of Side (d. 458)
• AMPHION of Epiphania (d. after 325)
• AMPHION of Nicomedia (d. after 338)
• AMULETS
• ANACLETUS (or Cletus), pope (76-88)
• ANAMNESIS (Gk άνάμνησις)
• ANANIAS (apocryphal)
• ANANIAS and SAPPHIRA (iconography)
• ANANIAS of Shirak or Anania Shirakatsi (d. 670)
• ANAPHORA
• ANASTASIA (d. 303?)
• ANASTASIANA
• ANASTASIUS (d. after 658)
• ANASTASIUS, emperor (d. 518)
• ANASTASIUS, poet (6th c.?)
• ANASTASIUS I, pope (399–401)
• ANASTASIUS I of Antioch (d. 598/599)
• ANASTASIUS II, pope (496–498)
• ANASTASIUS II of Antioch (d. 609/610)
• ANASTASIUS MAGUNDAT (d. 628)
• ANASTASIUS of Thessalonica
• ANASTASIUS the Apocrisarius (d. 666)
• ANASTASIUS the Sinaite (640-700)
• ANATHEMA
• ANATOLIUS of Constantinople (d. 458)
• ANATOLIUS of Laodicea (d. ca. 280)
• ANATOLIUS of Laodicea (pseudo)
• ANAZARBUS
• ANCHORITE
• ANCIENT LISTS of CANONICAL BOOKS and APOCRYPHA
• ANCYRA (“Αγκυρα)
• ANDREW, apostle
• ANDREW, apostle (apocryphal)
• ANDREW of Caesarea (6th c.)
• ANDREW of Crete (ca. 660-740)
• ANDREW of Samosata (d. after 444)
• ANEMIUS (d. 382/391)
• ANGEL
• ANGERS, Council of
• ANIANUS (Aignan) of Orleans (d. after 451)
• ANICETUS, pope (155–166)
• ANICIA JULIANA (d. 528)
• ANICIA JULIANA, widow (4th-5th c.)
• ANIMA MUNDI
• ANISIUS (d. 410)
• ANNIANUS, chronicler (4th-5th c.)
• ANNIANUS of Celeda (d. after 419)
• ANNUNCIATION (iconography)
• ANOINTING
• ANOMOIANS – ANOMOIANISM (Anomoeans - Anomoeanism)
• ANONYMI CHILIASTAE IN MATTHEUM 24 FRAGMENTA
• ANONYMOUS (or Antoninus) PLACENTINUS
• ANONYMOUS ANTIMONTANIST
• ANONYMOUS APOLLINARIST TEXTS
• ANONYMOUS ARIANS
• ANONYMOUS GALLUS (5th-6th c.)
• ANONYMOUS of VERONA
• ANONYMOUS SICILIAN
• ANONYMOUS VALESIANUS
• ANTERUS, pope (235–236)
• ANTHIMUS of Constantinople (d. after 548)
• ANTHIMUS of Nicomedia (d. 303)
• ANTHIMUS of Tyana (d. after 379)
• ANTHOLOGIA LATINA
• ANTHOLOGIA PALATINA
• ANTHOLOGIA SALMASIANA
• ANTHONY (6th c.)
• ANTHONY, abbot (251–ca. 335)
• ANTHONY of Choziba (d. after 630)
• ANTHROPOLOGY
• ANTHROPOMORPHISM
• ANTICHRIST
• ANTIDICOMARIANITAE
• ANTILEGOMENON
• ANTIOCH in Caria, Council of
• ANTIOCH of Syria
• ANTIOCHUS CHUZON (5th c.)
• ANTIOCHUS of Ptolemais (d. after 404)
• ANTIOCHUS Strategius (d. after 620)
• ANTIPATER of Bostra (5th c.), saint
• ANTITHESIS
• ANTITRINITARIANISM
• ANTONINUS PIUS (86-161)
• ANULINUS (first half 4th c.)
• APAMEA
• APATHEIA
• APELLES (2nd c.)
• APHRAATES (Aphrahat) (270?-345?)
• APHTHARTODOCETISM
• APIARIUS of Sicca (d. after 425)
• APION (2nd c.)
• APOCALYPSE
• APOCALYPSES (apocryphal)
• APOCATASTASIS
• APOCRISARIUS (or aprocrisiarius)
• APOCRYPHA
• APOCRYPHA, PETRINE
• APOCRYPHA IN EASTERN LANGUAGES
• APOCRYPHA of the OT, Christian and Christianized
• APOKATASTASIS (apocatastasis)
• APOLLINARIS the Elder (d. after 362)
• APOLLINARIS of Hierapolis (2nd c.)
• APOLLINARIS of Laodicea (d. 392) – APOLLINARIANISM
• APOLLINARIS of Ravenna (2nd-3rd c.)
• APOLLINARIS of Valence (d. after 523)
• APOLLONIA (d. 249)
• APOLLONIUS (d. ca. 185)
• APOLLONIUS of Ephesus (late 2nd-early 3rd(?) c.)
• APOLLONIUS of Tyana (4–96)
• APOLOGISTS - APOLOGETIC (general characteristics)
• APONIUS (6th c.)
• APOPHTHEGMATA PATRUM
• APOSTASY – APOSTATES
• APOSTLE – APOSTOLATE
• APOSTLES
• APOSTLES’ CREED (for professions of faith in general, see Creeds and Confessions of Faith)
• APOSTOLIC CANONS, The 85
• APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS
• APOSTOLIC SEE
• APOSTOLIC TRADITION
• APOSTOLICI
• APOSTOLICITY
• APOTHEOSIS
• APRINGIUS of Beja (mid-6th c.)
• AQUARIANS
• AQUILA, Acts of
• AQUILEIA
• AQUINCUM
• ARABIA
• ARABIAN HERESY
• ARATOR (d. ca. 550)
• ARBELA
• ARBELA, Chronicle of
• ARCADIUS, emperor (377–408)
• ARCADIUS of Cyprus (d. ca. 640)
• ARCHAEOLOGY, CHRISTIAN
• ARCHAEUS the African (2nd c.)
• ARCHBISHOP (αρχιεπίσκοπος)
• ARCHDEACON (άρχιδιάκονος)
• ARCHDEACON, ROMAN
• ARCHELAUS of Carcara (3rd c.)
• ARCHIDAMUS (4th c.)
• ARCHIMANDRITE
• ARCHONTICS. (Archontici)
• ARCHPRIEST
• ARETHAS (6th c.)
• ARGUMENTATION, PATRISTIC
• ARIOMANITAE (Άρειομανίται)
• ARISTEAS, Letter of
• ARISTIDES (2nd c.)
• ARISTION (1st-2nd c.)
• ARISTO of Pella (2nd c.)
• ARISTOLAUS the Tribune (5th c.)
• ARISTOTELIANISM
• ARIUS - ARIANISM
• ARLES
• ARMENIA
• ARMENIAN LANGUAGE and LITERATURE
• ARMENIAN RITE
• ARNOBIUS of Sicca (3rd-4th c.)
• ARNOBIUS the Younger (d. after 455)
• ARSACIUS (d. 405)
• ARSENIUS of Hypselis (d. after 335)
• ARSENIUS the Great (d. ca. 449)
• ARTAXATA (Artashat)
• ARTEMON (or Artemas) (3rd c.)
• ARTHEMIUS (d. 362)
• ARTOTYRITAE
• ASARBUS (d. 385)
• ASCENSION
• ASCENSION of ISAIAH (apocryphal)
• ASCESIS - ASCETIC
• ASCETERIUM
• ASCITAE - ASCODRUGITAE
• ASCLEPAS of Gaza (d. after 343)
• ASCLEPIAS of Antioch (d. 218)
• ASCLEPIODOTUS (or Asclepias)
• ASCLEPIUS
• ASHTISHAT
• ASIA
• ASIA MINOR (archaeology)
• ASIATIC CULTURE
• ASSEMBLY
• ASSUMPTION
• ASTERIUS of Amasea (bishop 378/395–400/431)
• ASTERIUS of Ansedunum
• ASTERIUS of Arabia (*Petra) (d. after 362)
• ASTERIUS the Sophist (4th c.)
• ASTERIUS TURCIUS RUFUS (d. after 494)
• ASTROLOGY
• ASYLUM, Right of
• ATARAXIA
• ATARBIUS (d. ca. 381)
• ATHANASIUS GAMMAL (d. 630/631)
• ATHANASIUS of Alexandria (295/300–373)
• ATHANASIUS of Anazarbus (4th c.)
• ATHANASIUS of Ancyra (d. 369/370)
• ATHEISM, Accusation of
• ATHENAGORAS
• ATHENODORUS (3rd c.)
• ATHENS
• ATHLETA CHRISTI
• ATTICUS (d. 425)
• ATTILA (ca. 400-453)
• AUDENTIUS (d. ca. 395)
• AUDIANI
• AUDIENTIA EPISCOPALIS
• AUDITE OMNES AMANTES
• AUGUSTALIS the African
• AUGUSTINE of Aquileia (408-434)
• AUGUSTINE of Canterbury (d. 604)
• AUGUSTINE of Hippo(354–430)
• AUGUSTINIANISM
• AUGUSTINUS HIBERNICUS (7th c.)
• AUGUSTUS, emperor (63 BC–AD 14)
• AUNACARIUS of Auxerre (b. before 540/d. before 605)
• AURASIUS of Toledo (d. 615)
• AURELIAN, emperor (d. 275)
• AURELIAN of Arles (523–551)
• AURELIUS of Carthage (d. 427)
• AUSONIUS (d. ca. 395)
• AUSPICIUS of Toul (d. 487/490)
• AUTHARI (560 ca.–590)
• AUTHORITY, Ecclesiastical
• AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• AUTUN
• AUXENTIUS of Durostorum (d. 386)
• AUXENTIUS of Milan (d. 374)
• AVE PHOENICE, De (early 4th c.)
• AVITUS of Braga (d. after 418)
• AVITUS of Piacenza (d. ca. 457)
• AVITUS of Vienne (d. 518)
• AXIOPOLIS (Hinog, Cernavoda, Romania)
• B
• BAALBEK ORACLE
• BABAI bar Nesibnaye the Less (d. 628/629)
• BABAI of Gbilta
• BABAI the Great
• BABYLAS of Antioch (d. 251)
• BACCHYLLUS
• BACHIARIUS (d. 425)
• BAETICA
• BALAAM (iconography)
• BALAI
• BALEARI
• BAPTISM
• BARBARUS SCALIGERI
• BARBELO-GNOSTICS
• BARCELONA
• BARDESANES (Bardaisan) of Edessa (154–222)
• BARHADBESHABBA
• BARLAAM (d. 303?)
• BARLAAM and JOSEPH, Life of (8th c.)
• BARNABAS (1st c.)
• BARNABAS, apostle (apocryphal)
• BARNABAS, Epistle of
• BARSABAS of Jerusalem (2nd c.)
• BARSANUPHIUS (d. after 540) and JOHN of Gaza (d. 542)
• BARSAUMA (d. 458)
• BARSAUMA of Karka of Beth Slok (d. after 630)
• BARSAUMA of Nisibis (415?–490/496)
• BARTHOLOMEW, apostle
• BARTHOLOMEW (patristics and apocrypha)
• BASIL, archimandrite (d. after 434)
• BASIL, Liturgy of Saint (CPG 2905/CPG Suppl. 2905)
• BASIL and EMMELIA (4th c.)
• BASIL of Ancyra (4th c.)
• BASIL of Caesarea in Cappadocia (Basil the Great) (ca. 330–379)
• BASIL of Cilicia (first half of 6th c.)
• BASIL of Seleucia
• BASIL the Great (pseudo)
• BASILIAD
• BASILIDES (2nd c.)
• BASILIDES of Pentapolis (3rd c.)
• BASILISCUS
• BASSIANUS of Ephesus (mid-5th c.)
• BASSIANUS of Lodi (d. 409)
• BAUDONIVIA (late 6th–early 7th c.)
• BEATITUDE
• BEATITUDES
• BEATUS of Liebana (8th c.)
• BEDE the Venerable (d. 735)
• BELISARIUS (ca. 500-565)
• BELISARIUS Scholasticus (5th c.)
• BELLATOR
• BENEDICT I, pope (575-579)
• BENEDICT II, pope (684-685)
• BENEDICT BISCOP (ca. 628-690), saint
• BENEDICT of Nursia (ca. 480-ca. 560)
• BENEVOLUS (late 4th c.)
• BENJAMIN of Alexandria (d. 665)
• BERYLLUS of Bostra (d. after 240)
• BESA (d. 474)
• BESANCON, Council of
• BETH ADRAI, Council of
• BETH LAPAT, Council of (or Bêt Lapat; in Persian Gundaisabur or Gondisapor)
• BETHLEHEM
• BEZIERS, Council of
• BIAGIUS
• BIBIANA (4th c.)
• BIBLE
• BINITARIANISM
• BIOGRAPHY
• BIRTH
• BIRTHDAY (dies natalis)
• BISHOP
• BITHYNIA and PONTUS
• BLANDINA (2nd c.)
• BLASTUS
• BLASTUS (2nd c.)
• BLESILLA (2nd half 4th c.)
• BLESSING
• BLOOD
• BODY
• BOETHIUS (d. ca. 525)
• BONIFACE (ca. 675-754)
• BONIFACE I, pope (418-422)
• BONIFACE II, pope (530-532)
• BONIFACE III, pope (607)
• BONIFACE IV, pope (608-615)
• BONIFACE V, pope (619–625)
• BONIFACIUS, primicerius notariorum
• BONIFACIUS Comes (d. 432)
• BONO PUDICITIAE, De
• BONOSUS (d. ca. 390)
• BONOSUS and MAXIMILIAN, martyrs
• BOOK
• BOOK OF ARMAGH
• BOOK OF LIFE
• BOOK on the INFANCY (Latin)
• BORBORIANI
• BORDEAUX
• BOSTRA (BOSRA)
• BRAGA (Portugal)
• BRAULIO of Saragossa (d. 651)
• BREAD
• BRENDAN (6th c.)
• BREVIARIUM APOSTOLORUM
• BREVIARIUM HIPPONENSE
• BREVIARIUM IN PSALMOS
• BREVIARIUM SYRIACUM (or Martyrologium Syriacum).
• BREVIARIUS DE HIEROSOLYMA
• BRIGID of Kildare (5th c.)
• BRITAIN
• BRITAIN and IRELAND
• BROTHER/SISTER
• BURGUNDIANS
• BYZACENA, Councils of
• BYZANTINE LITURGY
• BYZANTIUM - BYZANTINES
• C
• CAECILIAN (4th c.)
• CAEDMON (7th c.)
• CAENA CYPRIANI
• CAESAREA in Cappadocia
• CAESAREA in Mauretania
• CAESAREA in Palestine
• CAESARIA the Elder (ca. 465-524)
• CAESARIA the Younger
• CAESARIUS of Arles (ca. 470–543)
• CAESARIUS of Nazianzus (ca. 335-369)
• CAESARIUS of Nazianzus (pseudo) (d. ca. 550)
• CAESAROPAPISM
• CAINITES
• CAIUS (or Gaius), pope (283-296)
• CALCIDIUS (4th c.)
• CALDONIUS
• CALENDAR
• CALIGULA (12–41)
• CALLATIS (Mangalia, district of Constanta, Romania)
• CALLINICUS (d. after 450)
• CALLINICUS (Nicephorium)
• CALLINICUS I, patriarch
• CALLINICUS of Pelusium
• CALLISTUS I, pope (217–222)
• CANDIDIANUS Comes
• CANDIDUS the Arian (4th c.)
• CANDIDUS the Valentinian (3rd c.)
• CANON, MURATORIAN (Muratorian Fragment)
• CANON, ROMAN
• CANONES ADOMNANI (7th c.)
• CANONES HIBERNENSES (mid 7th c.)
• CANONICAL - CANON
• CANONICAL BOOKS
• CANONICAL COLLECTIONS
• CANONS, NİCENE (pseudo)
• CANONS of HIPPOLYTUS
• CANTERBURY
• CANTICLE of CANTICLES
• CAPPADOCIA
• CAPREOLUS
• CAPSA
• CAPUA
• CARACALLA (186-217)
• CARMEN ad Deum post conversionem et baptismum suum
• CARMEN ad Flavium Felicem de resurrectione mortuorum (incipit: Qui[s] mihi ruricolas optabit)
• CARMEN ad quendam senatorem (late 4th c.?)
• CARMEN adversus marcionitas
• CARMEN adversus paganos
• CARMEN de ingratis (429-430)
• CARMEN de passione Domini
• CARMEN de Providentia
• CARMEN de synodo Ticinensi
• CARMEN FIGURATUM
• CARPOCRATES (2nd c.)
• CARPOPHORUS, M. AURELIUS (2nd-3rd c.)
• CARTERIUS (late 4th c.)
• CARTHAGE
• CARTHAGINENSIS
• CASSIAN of Imola
• CASSIODORUS (Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus), senator (ca. 490–ca. 585)
• CASTING LOTS for JESUS’ CLOTHING (iconography)
• CATAPHRYGIANS
• CATECHESIS
• Introduction
• CATECHUMENATE – DISCIPLESHIP
• CATENAE, BIBLICAL
• CATHEDRA
• CATHERINE of Alexandria
• CATHOLIC
• CATHOLICOS (Katholikos)
• CAVERN of TREASURES (CAVERNA THESAURORUM)
• CECILIA, martyr
• CECROPIUS of Nicomedia (d. 358)
• CELESTINE I (d. 432)
• CELESTIUS (1st half of 5th c.)
• CELIBACY of the CLERGY
• CELL
• CELLANUS of Perrona (d. 706)
• CELSUS (2nd c.)
• CELSUS (3rd c.)
• CELTIC
• CELTIC LITURGY
• CEMETERY
• CENOBIUM – CENOBITE (also Coenobium – Coenobite)
• CENTESIMA, SEXAGESIMA, TRICESIMA, De
• CENTO
• CEOLFRITH (642–716)
• CERDO
• CEREALIS
• CERINTHUS – CERINTHIANS (1st-2nd c.)
• CHAD (Ceadda) (d. 672)
• CHALCEDON
• CHALCIS (Chalcis ad Belum)
• CHALICE
• CHANT and ANTIPHON
• CHARISMS
• CHARITO
• CHASTITY
• CHILD
• CHILPERIC I, king (530–584)
• CHINA
• CHLOTHAR I, king (d. 561)
• CHLOTHAR II, king (584–629)
• CHORBISHOP (chorepiscopus)
• CHOSROES, kings
• CHRISTIAN – CHRISTIANITY
• CHRISTIANITY and CLASSICAL CULTURE
• CHRISTIANS and JEWS
• CHRISTOLOGY
• CHRISTOPHER, martyr
• CHRISTUS PATIENS
• CHRODOBERT, duke (d. 674)
• CHROMATIUS of Aquileia (335/340–407)
• CHRONICLE of Edessa
• CHRONICON PASCHALE
• CHRONOGRAPHUS ANONYMUS
• CHRONOGRAPHY – CHRONOLOGY
• CHRONOGRAPHY of 354
• CHRYSIPPUS (ca. 410–479)
• CHRYSOGONUS, martyr
• CHRYSOSTOM
• CHURCH and EMPIRE
• CHURCH BUILDINGS
• CILICIA
• CIRCUMCELLIONS
• CIRCUMCISION
• CIRTA (present-day Constantine)
• CIRTA, Council of
• CITIZENSHIP, Roman
• CLAUDIAN, poet (ca. 370–early 5th c.)
• CLAUDIANUS MAMERTUS (ca. 420/430–474)
• CLAUDIUS, abbot (7th-8th c.)
• CLAUDIUS, emperor (10–54)
• CLAUDIUS II Gothicus, emperor (ca. 214–270)
• CLAUDIUS MARIUS VICTORIUS (1st half of 5th c.)
• CLAUSULA and CURSUS
• CLEMENT of Alexandria (150–ca. 215)
• CLEMENT of Rome, Letters of
• CLEMENTINES (pseudo)
• CLEOMENES
• CLERGY
• CLERICS of VERDUN (5th c.)
• CLERICS, Immunities and Privileges of
• CLINICUS
• CLOTHING
• CLOTILDE, saint (ca. 474–544/548)
• CLOVIS, king (466–511)
• CODEX APIARII CAUSAE (or Gesta de nomine Apiarii: CCL 149,98-148)
• CODEX JUSTINIANUS
• CODEX of VISIONS
• CODEX THEODOSIANUS
• COGITOSUS (Toimtenach), monk (7th c.)
• COLLATIO ALEXANDRI ET DINDIMI
• COLLATIO CUM DONATISTIS
• COLLATIO LEGUM
• COLLECT
• COLLUCIANISTS
• COLLUTHUS (mid-6th c.)
• COLLUTHUS of Alexandria (4th c.)
• COLLYRIDIANI
• COLMANUS (Colman) (7th c.)
• COLOGNE
• COLOR, SYMBOLISM and LITURGY
• COLOSSEUM (COLISEUM), Flavian amphitheater
• COLUMBA, abbot (521–597)
• COLUMBANUS (ca. 543–615)
• COMBAT (iconography)
• COMMENTARIES, Biblical
• COMMODIAN
• COMMODUS (161–192)
• COMMUNICATION, Written
• COMMUNION
• COMPUTI (apocryphal)
• COMPUTUS DE PASCHA
• COMPUTUS, ECCLESIASTICAL
• CONANTIUS of PALENCIA (d. 638/639)
• CONCORDIA
• CONCUBINAGE
• CONFESSOR
• CONFIRMATION
• CONON, bishop (6th c.)
• CONON, martyr (3rd c.)
• CONON, pope (686–687)
• CONSCIENCE, Freedom of
• CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION (to military service)
• CONSENTIUS (d. after 420)
• CONSOLATIO
• CONSTANS I, emperor (d. 350)
• CONSTANS II, emperor (d. 668)
• CONSTANTIA (d. 330)
• CONSTANTIA or Constantina (d. 354)
• CONSTANTINE
• CONSTANTINE I, emperor (271/273–337)
• CONSTANTINE II, emperor (d. 340)
• CONSTANTINE III, emperor
• CONSTANTINE of Laodicea
• CONSTANTINE of Siout (d. 640)
• CONSTANTINOPLE (Istanbul)
• CONSTANTIUS I, CHLORUS, emperor (d. 306)
• CONSTANTIUS II, emperor (d. 361)
• CONSTANTIUS III, emperor (d. 421)
• CONSTANTIUS of Aquino (6th c.)
• CONSTANTIUS of Lyons (5th c.)
• CONSTANTIUS tractarian (early 5th c.)
• CONSTITUTIONS of HIPPOLYTUS (epitome)
• CONSULTATIONES ZACCHAEI ET APOLLONII
• CONTEMPLATION
• CONTINENTES
• CONTINUATIO ANTIOCHIENSIS EUSEBII
• CONTRA ORIGENEM DE VISIONE ISAIAE
• CONVERSION – CONVERTS
• COPTIC
• CORICIUS (Χορικιος) (6th c.)
• CORINTH
• CORIPPUS, Flavius Cresconius (6th c.)
• CORNELIUS I, pope (251–253)
• CORNELIUS the CENTURIAN
• CORNERSTONE
• CORPUS
• CORSICA
• COSMAS and DAMIAN, doctors, martyrs, thaumaturges (3rd-4th c.)
• COSMAS Indicopleustes
• COSMAS of Maiuma (674/676–751/752)
• COSMAS the Monk (or Cosmas the Elder) (7th-8th c.)
• COSMAS Vestitor (after 750; Βεστητωρ4designates an employee of the imperial wardrobe)
• COSMOCRATOR/KOSMOKRATOR
• COSMOPOLITANISM
• COSMOS (Kosmos)
• COUNCIL
• CREATION
• CREATION (double)
• CREEDS and CONFESSIONS of FAITH
• CRESCONIUS
• CRESCONIUS, canonist (6th c.)
• CRETE
• CRIMEN laesae romanae religionis
• CRIMEN maiestatis imminutae
• CRISPINA (d. 304)
• CRISPINUS and CRISPINIANUS, martyrs
• CRITICAL EDITION
• CROSS – CRUCIFIX
• CROWN
• CRYPTOGRAPHY
• CUBICULARIUS
• CUMMIAN (d. 662)
• CURA SANITATIS TIBERII
• CURSUS PUBLICUS
• CUTHBERT, saint (Cuthbertus, ca. 634–20 March 687)
• CYPRIAN, poet (4th-5th c.)
• CYPRIAN, presbyter (4th-5th c.)
• CYPRIAN of Antioch
• CYPRIAN of Carthage (d. 258)
• CYPRIAN of Toulon (d. before 549)
• CYPRUS
• CYRIACUS
• CYRIACUS of al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus)
• CYRIL CELER (early 4th c.)
• CYRIL of Alexandria (370/380–444)
• CYRIL of Jerusalem (ca. 315–ca. 387)
• CYRIL of Jerusalem (pseudo) (7th-8th c.)
• CYRIL of Scythopolis (ca. 525–after 557)
• CYRILLONA (Qurillona)
• CYRUS of Alexandria (d. 642)
• CYRUS of Edessa (mid-6th c.)
• CYRUS of Panopolis (d. ca. 457)
• CYRUS of Tyana (6th c.)
• D
• DACIA TRAIANA
• DADISHO’ of Beth Qatraya (7th c.)
• DALMATIA
• DALMATIUS, monk (d. ca. 440)
• DALMATIUS of Cyzicus (5th c.)
• DAMASCIUS (d. after 538)
• DAMASCUS
• DAMASUS
• DAMIAN of Alexandria (d. 605)
• DAMIAN of Pavia (late 7th c.)
• DAMNATIO AD BESTIAS
• DAMNATIO AD METALLA
• DANCE
• DANIEL
• DANIEL (d. 744)
• DANIEL bar Maryam
• DANIEL of Salah (6th c.)
• DANIEL of Scete (6th c.?)
• DANIEL the Stylite (d. 493)
• DASIUS
• DAVID
• DAVID of Wales (d. ca. 601)
• DAVID the Armenian
• DEACONESSES
• DEAD, Ceremonies for the
• DEATH
• DECALOGUE
• DECENTIUS of Gubbio (d. after 416)
• DECIUS, emperor (d. 251)
• DECRETUM GELASIANUM
• DEDICATION of CHURCHES
• DEDICATION, Council of the
• DEFENSOR
• DEFENSOR, monk (d. after 700)
• DELPHINUS of Bordeaux (d. 403/404)
• DEMETRIAN of Antioch, saint (3rd c.)
• DEMETRIAS (d. 460?)
• DEMETRIUS MEGALOMARTYR (d. 306?)
• DEMETRIUS of Alexandria (d. 232)
• DEMETRIUS of Antioch (pseudo) (6th c.?)
• DEMON
• DEMOPHILUS of Constantinople (d. 387)
• DENDRITAE
• DEO GRATIAS
• DEO LAUDES
• DEOGRATIAS (d. 457)
• DEPOSITIO AD SANCTOS
• DEPOSITIO EPISCOPORUM - DEPOSITIO MARTYRUM
• DESCENT into HELL
• DESCENT into HELL (apocryphal)
• DESERT
• DESIDERIUS of Cahors (d. 650)
• DEUS TUORUM MILITUM
• DEUSDEDIT (d. 664)
• DEVOTION - DEVOTIONS
• DEXTER, Nummius Aemilianus (2nd half 4th c.)
• DIACONATE (minor ministries)
• DIACRINOMENI
• DIADOCHUS of Photice
• DIAKONIA - DIACONATE
• DIALOGI DE SANCTA TRINITATE IV-V
• DIALOGUE
• DIALOGUE of a MONTANIST with an ORTHODOX
• DIALOGUES of JESUS (apocryphal)
• DIALOGUS SUB NOMINE HIERONYMI ET AUGUSTINI
• DIATESSARON
• DICTINIUS
• DIDACHE
• DIDASCALIA APOSTOLORUM
• DIDASKALEION
• DIDASKALOS
• DIDYMUS the BLIND of Alexandria (313–398)
• DIGAMY
• DIOCLETIAN, emperor (d. ca. 313)
• DIODORE of Tarsus (d. before 394)
• DIOGNETUS, Letter to
• DIONYSIUS, pope (259/260?–267/268?)
• DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS (d. ca. 545)
• DIONYSIUS of Alexandria (d. ca. 265)
• DIONYSIUS of Corinth
• DIONYSIUS of Milan
• DIONYSIUS (Denis or Denys) of Paris (d. 250?)
• DIONYSIUS of Tell-Mahre (d. 845)
• DIONYSIUS the AREOPAGITE (pseudo) (4th- 5th c.)
• DIONYSIUS the AREOPAGITE (pseudo), (apocryphal)
• DIONYSIUS the ROMAN DEACON
• DIOSCORUS, martyr
• DIOSCORUS, pope (d. 530)
• DIOSCORUS of Alexandria (d. 454)
• DIOSPOLIS, Council of
• DIPTYCH
• DISCIPLESHIP
• DISCIPLINA ARCANI (Discipline of the Secret)
• DISCIPLINE
• DIVINIZATION
• DIVORCE
• DOCETISM
• DOCTRINA PATRUM
• DOGMA, History of
• DOMITIAN, emperor (51–96)
• DOMITIAN of Ancyra (5th c.)
• DOMITILLA
• DOMNUS (d. 271/272)
• DONATION of CONSTANTINE
• DONATIONS to the Church
• DONATISM
• DONATISTS
• DONATUS AELIUS, grammarian (4th c.)
• DONATUS of Besancon (ca. 590–ca. 660)
• DONATUS of Carthage (d. 355)
• DONUS, pope (676–678)
• DOORKEEPER (Porter)
• DOROTHEA (early 4th c.)
• DOROTHEUS (d. after 380)
• DOROTHEUS, Vision of
• DOROTHEUS of Antioch (3rd c.)
• DOROTHEUS of Antioch (d. 407)
• DOROTHEUS of Gaza (6th c.)
• DOROTHEUS of Marcianopolis (Moesia, 5th c.)
• DOROTHEUS of Thessalonica (d. ca. 535)
• DOSITHEUS of Samaria (1st c.)
• DOVE
• DOXOLOGY
• DRACONTIUS, Blossius Aemilius (d. after 496)
• DREAMS and the FATHERS
• DROPSY (iconography)
• DRUNKENNESS
• DUALISM
• DUMIUM
• DURA EUROPOS
• DVIN (Greek Δουβιος )
• DYNAMIS - ENERGEIA
• DYNAMIUS PATRICIUS (d. 601)
• DYOPHYSITISM - DYOPHYSITES
• E
• EADBURGA
• EAST - ORIENTATION
• EASTER
• EASTER HOMILIES
• EBIONITES
• ECCLESIASTICAL CANONS of the APOSTLES
• ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANIZATION
• ECCLESIOLOGY
• ECONOMY
• ECSTASY
• EDESSA (Syriac Urhây, Arabic ar-Ruhâ, now Urfa in Turkey)
• EDICT of MILAN
• EGBERT (678–766)
• EGERIA (d. after 385)
• EGYPT
• EKTHESIS MAKROSTICHOS
• EKTHESIS of HERACLIUS
• ELEUSIUS of Cyzicus (d. ca. 384)
• ELEUTHERUS (Eleuterus, Eleutherius), pope (175–189)
• ELEUTHERUS (Eleuterus, Eleutherius) of Tournai (d. 531)
• ELIAS of Jerusalem (430–518)
• ELIGIUS of Noyon-Tournai (ca. 590–660)
• ELIJAH, prophet
• ELISAEUS, doctor (Ełišē Vardapet) (6th c.?)
• ELKESAITES
• ELPIDIUS (4th c.)
• ELPIDIUS RUSTICUS (5th-6th c.)
• ELVIRA, Council of
• EMERENTIANA (d. 303?)
• EMERITUS (d. after 418)
• EMESA
• ENCOLPION
• ENCRATISM (from εγκρατεια= continence)
• ENCYCLOPEDIA
• ENDELECHIUS (4th-5th c.)
• ENHYPOSTASIS
• ENNODIUS (474–521)
• ENTERTAINMENTS
• ENTRY of JESUS into JERUSALEM (iconography)
• EPHESUS
• EPHREM of Antioch or of Amida (his birthplace)
• EPHREM the Syrian (ca. 306–373)
• EPICLESIS
• EPICTETUS of Corinth
• EPIGONUS
• EPIGRAM
• EPIGRAMMA PAULINI (5th c.)
• EPIGRAPHIC SYLLOGES
• EPIGRAPHY, Christian
• EPIPHANES (2nd c.)
• EPIPHANIUS, monk (8th-9th c.)
• EPIPHANIUS of Constantinople (d. 535)
• EPIPHANIUS of Pavia (438–496)
• EPIPHANIUS of Salamis (d. 403)
• EPIPHANIUS Scholasticus (5th-6th c.), monk
• EPIPHANIUS SYNCELLUS (d. after 431)
• EPIPHANIUS the Latin
• EPIPHANY, Feast of
• EPIRUS
• EPISCOPAL LISTS
• EPISTOLA ANNE AD SENECAM
• EPISTULA APOLOGETICA
• EPISTULA APOSTOLORUM (Book Revealed to His Disciples)
• EPISTULA DE PATRIA
• EPISTULA FERMETIS AD HADRIANUM
• EPISTULA SCYTHARUM MONACHORUM AD EPISCOPOS
• EPISTULA TITI
• EPISTULAE AUSTRASICAE
• EQUITIUS of Hippo Dyarrhytus (d. after 404)
• ERECHTHIUS of Antioch (5th c.)
• ESCHATOLOGY
• ESDRAS (Ezra) (apocryphal)
• ETERNITY
• ETHELBERT (560–616)
• ETHICS
• ETHIOPIA
• EUBULUS of Lystra
• EUCHARIST
• EUCHERIA (5th-6th c.)
• EUCHERIUS (pseudo) (7th c.?)
• EUCHERIUS Comes (5th c.)
• EUCHERIUS of Lyons (d. 449/455)
• EUCHITES
• EUDOXIA (d. 404)
• EUDOXIA (Eudocia, Eudokia), (ca. 400–460)
• EUDOXIUS (d. 370)
• EUGENIUS, monk
• EUGENIUS I, pope (654–657)
• EUGENIUS FLAVIUS (d. 394)
• EUGENIUS of Ancyra (4th c.)
• EUGENIUS of Carthage (d. 505)
• EUGENIUS of Seleucia (6th c.)
• EUGENIUS of Toledo (d. 657)
• EUGIPPIUS (ca. 460–ca. 535)
• EULALIA of Barcelona, martyr
• EULALIA of Merida, martyr
• EULALIUS, antipope (418–419)
• EULALIUS of Antioch (d. 331)
• EULOGIA
• EULOGIUS of Alexandria (d. 607/608)
• EUNAPIUS of Sardis (345/6–ca. 420)
• EUNOMIUS of Berea
• EUNOMIUS of Cyzicus (d. ca. 394)
• EUNUCHS
• EUPHEMIA of Chalcedon (d. 303)
• EUPHEMIUS of Constantinople (d. 515)
• EUPHRATAS of Cologne (4th c.)
• EUPHRONIUS of Antioch (d. after 332)
• EUPLUS of Catania (d. 304)
• EUPREPIUS (4th c.)
• EURIC
• EUSEBIAN CANONS
• EUSEBIANS
• EUSEBIUS, pope, saint (d. 308)
• EUSEBIUS GALLICANUS
• EUSEBIUS of Alexandria (mid 3rd c.)
• EUSEBIUS of Alexandria (pseudo) (late 5th c.– early 6th c.)
• EUSEBIUS of Bologna (4th c.)
• EUSEBIUS of Caesarea (Cappadocia) (d. 370)
• EUSEBIUS of Caesarea (Palestine) (ca. 265–339)
• EUSEBIUS of Cremona (d. after 418)
• EUSEBIUS of Dorylaeum (d. after 451)
• EUSEBIUS of Emesa (ca. 300–before 359)
• EUSEBIUS of Heraclea (d. after 431)
• EUSEBIUS of Laodicea (d. 270)
• EUSEBIUS of Milan (d. 462?)
• EUSEBIUS of Nicomedia (d. ca. 341)
• EUSEBIUS of Samosata (ca. 310–379/380)
• EUSEBIUS of Thessalonica (6th-7th c.)
• EUSEBIUS of Vercelli (d. 371)
• EUSTATHIUS, monk (6th c.)
• EUSTATHIUS of Antioch (d. after 343)
• EUSTATHIUS of Berytus (d. after 451)
• EUSTATHIUS of Epiphania (early 5th c.)
• EUSTATHIUS of Sebaste (ca. 300–ca. 380)
• EUSTOCHIUM (before 370–before 418/419)
• EUSTORGIUS of Milan (4th c.)
• EUSTRATIUS of Constantinople (6th c.)
• EUTHALIUS (4th c.?)
• EUTHALIUS of Sulci
• EUTHERIUS of Tyana (5th c.)
• EUTHYMIAN HISTORY, Greek legend (6th c.)
• EUTHYMIUS the Great, saint (377–473)
• EUTROPIUS of Orange (d. ca. 494)
• EUTROPIUS of Saintes (3rd c.?)
• EUTROPIUS of Valencia (6th c.)
• EUTROPIUS the Eunuch (d. after 399)
• EUTROPIUS the Presbyter (4th-5th c.)
• EUTYCHES (ca. 378–454)
• EUTYCHIANUS, pope (275–283)
• EUTYCHIUS of Constantinople (ca. 512–582)
• EUTYCHIUS of Eleutheropolis (d. after 365)
• EUZOIUS of Antioch (d. ca. 375)
• EUZOIUS of Caesarea (d. 381)
• EVAGRIUS, monk (4th-5th c.)
• EVAGRIUS of Antioch (ca. 320 – ca. 394)
• EVAGRIUS of Constantinople (4th c.)
• EVAGRIUS of Epiphania (Scholasticus) (d. after 594)
• EVAGRIUS of Pontus (ca. 345–399)
• EVANGELISTS
• EVANGELIZATION (spread of Christianity)
• EVARISTUS, pope (97–105)
• EVIL
• EVODIUS (pseudo)
• EVODIUS of Antioch (1st c.)
• EVODIUS of Uzalis (d. after 422)
• EXAMPLE (Exemplum)
• EXCOMMUNICATION
• EXEGESIS, PATRISTIC
• EXHORTATIO DE PAENITENTIA
• EXODUS
• EXORCISM - EXORCIST
• EXPIATION
• EXPOSITIO FIDEI CATHOLICAE
• EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS
• EXULTET
• EXUPERIUS of Toulouse (d. after 412)
• EZANA (‘Ēzānā, Αιζανας; 4th c.)
• EZEKIEL (iconography)
• EZNIK of Kolb (bishop of Bagrewand, first half 5th c.)
• EZRA. See *ESDRAS (Ezra) (apocryphal)
• F
• FABIAN, pope (236–250)
• FABIOLA (d. 399)
• FABIOLA (1st half 5th c.)
• FABIUS of Antioch (d. 252/253)
• FACUNDUS of Hermiane (d. 571)
• FAITH
• FAITHFUL
• FALSIFICATION
• FAMILY
• FASTIDIOSUS the Arian (2nd half of 5th–early 6th c.)
• FASTIDIUS (1st half 5th c.)
• FASTING and ABSTINENCE
• FATHER, FATHERS of the CHURCH
• FATHER, NAME of GOD
• FAUSTINUS (4th c.)
• FAUSTINUS of Potenza Picena (d. after 425/426)
• FAUSTUS (5th c.)
• FAUSTUS of Byzantium (4th c.)
• FAUSTUS of Riez (ca. 400–490/495)
• FAUSTUS the Manichean
• FELICIAN of Musti (end 4th c.)
• FELICISSIMUS of Carthage (3rd c.)
• FELICITY, martyr
• FELIX I, pope (d. 274)
• FELIX II, antipope (d. 365)
• FELIX III (II), pope (d. 492)
• FELIX IV (III), pope (d. 530)
• FELIX and ADAUCTUS (d. 303?)
• FELIX GILLITANUS (6th c.)
• FELIX of Aptunga (Apthungi, Apthugni) (beginning of 4th c.)
• FELIX of Nola (3rd c.)
• FELIX of Thibiuca (d. 15 July 303)
• FELIX of Trier (d. 400)
• FELIX the Manichean
• FERRANDUS of Carthage (d. before 546)
• FERREOLUS of Uzes (d. 581)
• FESTAL LETTERS
• FESTUS (d. after 62)
• FIBULA (buckle)
• FIDES HIERONYMI
• FIDES NICAENA
• FIDUCIA
• FIERY FURNACE (iconography)
• FILASTER (Philaster, Philastrius) (d. before 397)
• FILIOQUE
• FINNIAN of Clonard (d. 549)
• FIRMICUS MATERNUS (d. after 350)
• FIRMILIAN of Caesarea in Cappadocia (d. 268)
• FIRMUS of Caesarea in Cappadocia (d. 439)
• FISH
• FISHERMAN
• FLACCILLA (d. 386)
• FLACCILLUS of Antioch (d. before 343)
• FLAVIAN, martyr
• FLAVIAN I of Antioch (bishop 381–404)
• FLAVIAN II of Antioch (d. after 518)
• FLAVIAN of Chalon-sur-Saone (d. 591)
• FLAVIAN of Constantinople (d. 449)
• FLAVIAN of Philippi
• FLAVIANUS, Virius Nicomachus (d. after 394)
• FLAVIUS CLEMENS, consul (1st c)
• FLESH
• FLIGHT
• FLOOD, Universal (iconography)
• FLORENTIUS (1st half of 5th c.)
• FLORENTIUS of Strasbourg (6th c.)
• FLORIAN
• FLORIAN, abbot (5th-6th c.)
• FLORILEGIA
• FLORILEGIUM EDESSENUM ANONYMUM
• FLORINUS (2nd c.)
• FLORUS of Hadrumetum (d. after 418)
• FOOT WASHING
• FOREKNOWLEDGE
• FORGIVENESS
• FORNICATION
• FORTUNATIAN of Aquileia (4th c.)
• FORTUNATIAN of Sicca Veneria (1st half of 5th c.)
• FORTUNATUS
• FORTUNATUS the Manichean (d. after 392)
• FORTY MARTYRS of SEBASTE
• FOSSOR
• FOUR CROWNED MARTYRS
• FRAGMENTA ARIANA
• FRANKS
• FRAVITTA (d. 490)
• FREDEGAR (pseudo) (7th c.?)
• FREEDOM - FREE WILL
• FRIENDSHIP
• FRONTO of Cirta
• FRUCTUOSUS of Braga (d. 665)
• FRUCTUOSUS of Tarragona (d. 259)
• FRUMENTIUS
• FULGENTIUM DONATISTAM, ADVERSUS
• FULGENTIUS, Fabius Planciades (late 5th c.?)
• FULGENTIUS of Astigi (Ecija) (d. before 625)
• FULGENTIUS of Ruspe (467-532)
• FULGENTIUS the Donatist (d. after 411)
• FULMINATA (legio XII)
• FUNERARY RITES
• G
• GABRIEL (iconography)
• GABRIEL QATRAYA (7th c.)
• GAIANUS (6th c.)
• GAIUS (and the Alogi) (2nd c.)
• GALATIA
• GALBIUS and CANDIDUS, a Greek legend (6th c.?)
• GALEN (ca. 129-199)
• GALERIUS (ca. 250-311)
• GALILEANS (Christian)
• GALL (d. ca. 645)
• GALLA PLACIDIA (ca. 388-450)
• GALLAECIA (Galicia)
• GALLICAN LITURGY
• GALLIENUS, emperor (ca. 218-268)
• GALLONIUS, martyr and companions (d. 303)
• GAMMADIA
• GANGRA
• GARMENTS of SKINS
• GAUDENTIUS of Brescia (d. after 410)
• GAUDENTIUS of Novara (d. ca. 418)
• GAUDENTIUS the Donatist (d. after 422)
• GAUL
• GAZA (Heb. ‘Azzâh, “the strong,” Aram. Ghazzeh, Egyptian Gazatu, Assyrian Hazzatu, Gr. Γάζα)
• GELASIUS I, pope (d. 496)
• GELASIUS of Caesarea (ca. 335-395)
• GELASIUS of Cyzicus (d. after 475)
• GEMINIANUS, saint (342/344-ca. 396)
• GEMINIUS (4th c.)
• GENESIS, Patristic Interpretation of
• GENESIUS of Arles (d. 303?)
• GENEVIEVE of Paris (ca. 422-ca. 502)
• GENNADIUS of Constantinople
• GENNADIUS of Marseille (d. after 496)
• GENRES, LITERARY
• GENSERIC (d. 477)
• GENTILES
• GEORGE, monk and presbyter (7th c.)
• GEORGE CHOIROBOSKOS (8th c.?)
• GEORGE GRAMMATICUS (6th c.)
• GEORGE MEGALOMARTYR (d. 303?)
• GEORGE of Alexandria (7th c.)
• GEORGE of Laodicea (d. 360?)
• GEORGE of Pisidia (7th c.)
• GEORGE of Sykeon (Eleusios). Monk and Byzantine hagiographer (6th-7th c.)
• GEORGE of the Arabs (d. 724)
• GEORGE the Cappadocian
• GEORGIA
• GEORGIAN LANGUAGE and LITERATURE
• GERASENE DEMONIAC (iconography)
• GERASIMUS, hermit (d. 475)
• GERMANUS of Auxerre (ca. 378-448)
• GERMANUS of Capua (d. ca. 541)
• GERMANUS of Constantinople (d. ca. 733)
• GERMANUS of Paris (Born at Autun, end 5th c.; d. 576)
• GERMANY
• GERMINIUS of Sirmium (d. ca. 374)
• GERONA
• GERONTIUS (ca. 395-ca. 480)
• GERONTIUS of Nicomedia (d. after 400/401)
• GERVASIUS and PROTASIUS, martyrs (d. ca. 303)
• GESTA APUD ZENOPHILUM
• GESTA PURGATIONIS CAECILIANI ET FELICIS
• GESTURES (iconography)
• GESTURES, LITURGICAL
• GIFT
• GILDAS the Wise (d. 570)
• GILDO (d. 398)
• GIRK’ T'GHT'OTS’ (The Book of Letters)
• GLORIA
• GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO
• GLOSS - GLOSSARY
• GLOSSA PSALMORUM
• GNOSIS - GNOSTICISM
• GOD
• GOGO (d. 581)
• GOLDEN RULE
• GOOD
• GORGONIA (d. 369/374)
• GOSPEL of the SAVIOR
• GOSPELS (apocryphal)
• GOTHIC LITERATURE
• GOTHS
• GRACE
• GRATIAN (359–383)
• GRATUS
• GRATUS of Carthage (d. before 359)
• GREEK, CHRISTIAN
• GREGENTIUS (4th c.)
• GREGORY, presbyter (of Caesarea/of Cappadocia?)
• GREGORY II, pope (d. 731)
• GREGORY III, pope (d. 741)
• GREGORY of Agrigentum (7th c.-early 8th c.)
• GREGORY of Antioch (d. 593/594)
• GREGORY of Cyprus
• GREGORY of Elvira (d. ca. 400)
• GREGORY of Nazianzus (ca. 330-390)
• GREGORY of Nyssa (ca. 335/340-ca. 395)
• GREGORY of Tours (ca. 538-594)
• GREGORY THAUMATURGUS (ca. 213-ca. 270)
• GREGORY the Cappadocian (d. 345)
• GREGORY the Elder (275-374)
• GREGORY the Great (ca. 540-604)
• GREGORY the Illuminator (ca. 260-ca. 328)
• GUNDEMAR (d. 612)
• H
• HABAKKUK (iconography)
• HADRIAN, emperor (76-138)
• HADRIAN, exegete (d. before 450)
• HADRIAN of Canterbury (d. late 7th c.)
• HADRIAN of Nicomedia (d. 303)
• HADRIAN of Nicomedia (d. 315?)
• HADRUMETUM
• HAERESES, ADVERSUS OMNES
• HAGIOGRAPHY
• HARMONIUS (3rd c.)
• HEALING of the MAN BORN BLIND
• HEALING of TIBERIUS (
• HEGEMONIUS (3rd-4th c.)
• HEGESIPPUS (mid-2nd c.)
• HEGESIPPUS, pseudo (De bello judaico)
• HEGUMEN
• HELENA (d. 328/329)
• HELENUS (d. after 268)
• HELIODORUS (d. before 404)
• HELIOGABALUS (204-222)
• HELLADIUS of Caesarea (4th c.)
• HELLADIUS of Tarsus (5th c.)
• HELLENISM and CHRISTIANITY
• HELLENISTIC JUDAISM
• HELVIDIUS (d. before 383)
• HEMORRHAGING WOMAN (iconography)
• HENANA of Adiabene (d. ca. 610)
• HENANISHO (7th c.)
• HENOTICON
• HERACLAS of Alexandria (d. ca. 247)
• HERACLEON (2nd c.)
• HERACLIAN of Chalcedon (6th c.)
• HERACLIDAS (or Heraclides) of Nyssa (5th c.)
• HERACLIDES of Cyprus
• HERACLITUS
• HERACLIUS (575-641)
• HERACLIUS of Hippo (d. after 430)
• HERACLIUS the Roman (d. after 308)
• HERESIOLOGISTS
• HERESY - HERETIC
• HERETICAL MONUMENTS
• HERMAS, SHEPHERD of (2nd c.)
• HERMENEGILD, martyr (d. 585)
• HERMETICISM
• HERMIAS, apologist
• HERMOGENES, bishop (5th c.)
• HERMOGENES, heretic (late 2nd-early 3rd c.)
• HEROD (iconography)
• HESYCHASM
• HESYCHIUS of Alexandria, exegete (3rd–4th c.)
• HESYCHIUS of Alexandria, lexicographer (5th-or 6th-c.)
• HESYCHIUS of Castabala
• HESYCHIUS of Jerusalem (5th c.)
• HESYCHIUS of Miletus (6th c.)
• HESYCHIUS of Salona (4th-5th c.)
• HESYCHIUS the Sinaite (7th c.?)
• HETOIMASIA
• HEXAEMERON
• HEXAPLA
• HIERACAS of Leontopolis (3rd-4th c.)
• HIEROCLES SOSSIANUS (d. after 307)
• HIEROTHEUS
• HILARIANUS, Quintus Julius (4th c.)
• HILARION of Gaza (291-371)
• HILARUS, pope (461–468)
• HILARY (4th-5th c.)
• HILARY, poet (461–468)
• HILARY of Arles (ca. 401-449)
• HILARY of Poitiers (beginning of 4th c.-ca. 367)
• HILARY the Luciferian (4th c.)
• HIMERIUS of Prusa (4th c.)
• HIMERIUS (Eumerius, Comerius) of Tarragona (4th c.)
• HIMYARITES, Book of the
• HIMYARITES, martyrs
• HIPPO
• HIPPOLYTUS (ca. 170-ca. 235)
• HIPPOLYTUS (pseudo)
• HIPPOLYTUS of Bostra (3rd–4th c.?)
• HISPANIC LITURGY
• HISPERICA FAMINA
• HISTORIA ACEPHALA
• HISTORIA AUGUSTA
• HISTORIA MONACHORUM
• HISTORIA TRIPARTITA
• HISTORIOGRAPHY, CHRISTIAN
• HISTRIA (Istria, district of Constanta, in Dobrudja, on Lake Sinoe, Romania)
• HOLY SPIRIT
• HOMER
• HOMERIC CENTOS (poetry)
• HOMILIARY
• HOMILY
• HOMINE MISERO, De
• HOMOIANS (Homoeans)
• HOMOIOSIS THEO
• HOMOIOUSIANS (Homoeousians)
• HOMOIOUSIOS
• HOMOOUSIANS
• HOMOOUSIOS
• HONORATUS ANTONINUS (d. after 437)
• HONORATUS of Lerins and Arles (d. 429/430)
• HONORATUS of Marseille (5th c.)
• HONORATUS of Vercelli (d. 416?)
• HONORIUS (Flavius Honorius) (384–423)
• HONORIUS, pope (d. 638)
• HONORIUS of Canterbury (d. 653)
• HONORIUS Scholasticus
• HOPE
• HORMISDAS, pope (d. 523)
• HORSIESI (ca. 305-ca. 390)
• HOSPITALITY, CHRISTIAN
• HUESCA (Lat. Osca, Oscensis, Spain)
• HUMILITY, Patristic Writings on
• HUNERIC
• HUNS (Lat. Hunni, Chunni; Greek Οὗνοι,Χοῦνοι)
• HYDATIUS (395-470)
• HYDATIUS of Merida (4th c.)
• HYGINUS, pope (d. 140)
• HYGINUS of Cordoba (4th c.)
• HYMENAEUS of Jerusalem (d. after 268)
• HYMN - HYMNOLOGY
• HYMN of the PEARL
• HYPATIA of Alexandria (ca. 370-415)
• HYPATIUS (ca. 336-446; feast 17 June)
• HYPATIUS of Ephesus (2nd half 5th c.-after 537/538)
• HYPERECHIUS (5th c.)
• HYPOSTASIS
• HYPOSTATIC UNION
• HYPSISTARIANS
• HYSTASPES, Book of
• I
• IAMBLICHUS (d. ca. 325)
• IBAS of Edessa (d. 457)
• IBERIA
• ICONIUM
• ICONOGRAPHY - ICONOLOGY
• IDALIUS of Barcelona (d. ca. 689)
• IDOLATRY - IDOLS
• IDOLOTHYTE
• IGNATIUS of Antioch (d. ca. 110)
• IGNATIUS of Antioch (pseudo) (4th c.)
• ILDEFONSUS of Toledo (607-667)
• ILLUMINATION
• IMAGE
• IMPERIAL CULT
• IMPIETY
• IMPROPERIA (or REPROACHES)
• INCARNATION
• INCENSE
• INCEST
• INCORRUPTIBILITY
• INCUBATIO
• INDEX OLEORUM
• INDICTION
• INFINITY - INFINITUDE
• INITIATION, CHRISTIAN
• INNOCENT I, pope (d. 417)
• INNOCENT of Maroneia (6th c.)
• INNOCENTS, Feast of the
• INSTANTIUS (4th c.)
• INSTITUTUM NERONIANUM
• INTERCESSION
• INTERCESSIONS, GENERAL (Oratio Fidelium)
• INTERPOLATION
• INTOLERANCE, CHRISTIAN
• INTRAMURAL GRAVES
• IOCA MONACHORUM
• IONA, De (De Nineve)
• IRELAND
• IRENAEUS of Harpassus (6th c.)
• IRENAEUS of Lyons (130/140–after 198)
• IRENAEUS of Sirmium (d. 304)
• IRENAEUS of Tyre (d. after 448)
• ISAAC of Amida (d. ca. 461)
• ISAAC of Antioch (5th c.)
• ISAAC of Edessa (5th–6th c.)
• ISAAC of Nineveh (the Syrian) (middle of the 7th c.)
• ISAAC of Persia (4th–5th c.)
• ISAAC the Jew (d. after 378)
• ISAAC the Persian
• ISAIAH of Scete (and Gaza) (d. 491)
• ISHAI (6th c.)
• ISHO'BAR NUN (d. 828)
• ISHOBOKHT of Rev-Ardashir (7th–8th c.)
• ISHO'DNAH of Basra (9th c.)
• ISHO'YAHB I, catholicos (d. ca. 595)
• ISHO'YAHB II, catholicos (d. 644/646)
• ISHO'YAHB III the Great, catholicos (d. 659)
• ISIDORE, gnostic (2nd c.)
• ISIDORE of Alexandria (d. 404)
• ISIDORE of Chios (d. 251)
• ISIDORE of Pelusium (4th–5th c.)
• ISIDORE of Seville (560–636)
• ISIDORE the Younger (7th–8th c.)
• ISOCHRISTS
• ITALY
• ITHACIUS of Ossonuba (4th c.)
• ITINERARIES
• ITINERARIUM BURDIGALENSE
• IZLA (Izala), Mount
• J
• JACOB (iconography)
• JACOB BARADEUS (d. 578)
• JACOB of Edessa (ca. 633–708)
• JACOB of Nisibis (d. 338 or a little later)
• JACOB of Sarug (ca. 450-ca. 521)
• JACOB'S LADDER (iconography)
• JACOBITE CHURCH
• JAIRUS (iconography)
• JAMES the Great
• JAMES the Great (apocrypha)
• JAMES the Less
• JAMES the Lord's Brother (apocrypha)
• JANUARIAN (4th–5th c.)
• JANUARIUS and companions (d. 303)
• JEROME (ca. 347–419)
• JEROME of Jerusalem (beginning 8th c.)
• JERUSALEM
• JESU CHRISTO DEO ET HOMINE, De
• JESUS CHRIST (iconography)
• JEWISH CHRISTIANITY
• JOB
• JOBIUS
• JOBIUS the Apollinarist (end of 4th c.)
• JOHANNITES
• JOHN, deacon
• JOHN, evangelist and theologian
• JOHN, Gospel of
• JOHN, primicerius notariorum
• JOHN I, pope (523–526)
• JOHN II, pope (533–535)
• JOHN II of Constantinople (the Cappadocian), patriarch (d. 520)
• JOHN II of Jerusalem, bishop (d. 417)
• JOHN III, pope (561–574)
• JOHN III Scholasticus (d. 577)
• JOHN IV, pope (640–642)
• JOHN IV of Jerusalem (d. 593/594)
• JOHN IV the Faster
• JOHN V, pope (685–686)
• JOHN VI, pope (701–705)
• JOHN VI of Constantinople (d. 715)
• JOHN VII, pope (705–707)
• JOHN (III) of Alexandria, bishop (d. 689)
• JOHN ARKAPH (d. after 338)
• JOHN bar Aphtonia (475/480–537)
• JOHN bar Kursos (482/483–538)
• JOHN bar Penkaya (7th c.)
• JOHN CALYBITA (ca. 418–450)
• JOHN CASSIAN (ca. 360-ca. 435)
• JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (d. 407)
• JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (Latin Collection)
• JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (pseudo)
• JOHN CLIMACUS (or Scholasticus) (d. ca. 649)
• JOHN Comes (5th c.)
• JOHN DIACRINOMENOS (6th c.)
• JOHN DRUNGARIUS
• JOHN MALALAS (d. after 565)
• JOHN MANDAKUNI (484–498)
• JOHN MAXENTIUS (6th c.)
• JOHN “MEDIOCRIS” of Naples (bishop 532/535– 552/555)
• JOHN MOSCHUS (Moschos) (d. 620/634)
• JOHN of Aegeates
• JOHN of Antioch (d. 441/442)
• JOHN of Antioch, chronicler (6th–7th c.)
• JOHN of Apamea, “the Solitary” (5th c.?)
• JOHN of Arles (7th c.)
• JOHN of Berytus (end of the 5th c.)
• JOHN of Biclaro (d. ca. 621)
• JOHN of Caesarea (d. after 515)
• JOHN of Carpathus
• JOHN of Cellae (2nd half of 6th c.) (Kellia, to the SW of Alexandria, near * Scete)
• JOHN of Dalyatha
• JOHN of Damascus (ca. 650–749/750)
• JOHN of Ephesus (or of Asia) (ca. 507–589)
• JOHN of Euboea (8th c.)
• JOHN of Gabala (beginning of the 5th c.)
• JOHN of Lycopolis (d. 394/395)
• JOHN of Maiuma (or John Rufus) (d. after 515)
• JOHN of Naples (d. 432)
• JOHN of Nikiu (d. after 700)
• JOHN of Paralos (d. 610/620)
• JOHN of Saint Martin (d. 680)
• JOHN of Saragossa (ca. 580-ca. 631)
• JOHN of Scythopolis (Palestine) (6th c.)
• JOHN of Shmun (6th–7th c.)
• JOHN of Thessalonica (d. ca. 630)
• JOHN of Tomi (5th c.)
• JOHN PHILOPONUS (6th c.)
• JOHN TALAIAS (d. 495/496)
• JOHN the ALMSGIVER (d. 620)
• JOHN THE BAPTIST
• JOHN THE BAPTIST (iconography)
• JOHN the EGYPTIAN (d. after 536)
• JOHN the PRESBYTER (1st c.)
• JOHN the SILENT (d. 559)
• JONAH
• JONAS of Bobbio (ca. 600–after 659)
• JORDANES (ca. 500-ca. 570)
• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH HAZZAYA (8th c.)
• JOSEPH of Arimathea (apocrypha)
• JOSEPH THE CARPENTER, History of
• JOSEPH the HEBREW (iconography)
• JOSHUA
• JOSHUA the STYLITE, Chronicle of
• JOVIAN, emperor (331–364)
• JOVINIAN (d. before 406)
• JOVINUS (2nd half 4th c.)
• JUBILEE
• JUDAEOS, ADVERSUS
• JUDAISM
• JUDAIZERS
• JUDAS ISCARIOT (apocrypha)
• JUDAS ISCARIOT (iconography)
• JUDAS KYRIAKOS
• JUDAS THADDAEUS
• JUDAS THADDAEUS (apocrypha)
• JUDEA, Desert of
• JUDGMENT
• JULIA of Antioch (4th–5th c.)
• JULIAN, Apollinarist (end 4th c.)
• JULIAN, Arian (4th c.)
• JULIAN (the Apostate), emperor (331–363)
• JULIAN of Brioude (d. 250?)
• JULIAN of Cos (d. before 460)
• JULIAN of Eclanum (386–454)
• JULIAN of Halicarnassus (d. after 527)
• JULIAN of Serdica (5th c.)
• JULIAN of Tabia (5th c.)
• JULIAN of Toledo (642–690)
• JULIAN POMERIUS (5th–6th c.)
• JULIUS AFRICANUS (d. 240)
• JULIUS CASSIAN (2nd c.)
• JULIUS I, pope (337–352)
• JULIUS of Aqfahs
• JULIUS of Puteoli (5th c.)
• JUNILIUS (6th c.)
• JUNIUS BASSUS (317–359)
• JUSTICE
• JUSTIFICATION
• JUSTIN, gnostic (2nd–3rd c.)
• JUSTIN I, emperor (450–527)
• JUSTIN II, emperor (565–578)
• JUSTIN MARTYR (d. before 167)
• JUSTIN MARTYR (pseudo)
• JUSTINA (d. after 388)
• JUSTINA of Padua
• JUSTINIAN, emperor (482–565)
• JUSTINIAN of Valencia (d. 547)
• JUSTUS of Canterbury (d. ca. 627)
• JUSTUS of Lyons (d. ca. 400)
• JUSTUS of Toledo (d. 633)
• JUSTUS of Trieste (d. 303?)
• JUSTUS of Urgel
• JUVENAL (4th c.)
• JUVENAL of Jerusalem
• JUVENCUS (1st half of the 4th c.)
• K
• KERYGMA
• KINGDOM of GOD (developments of the formula in the first three centuries)
• KISS, HOLY
• KNIK’ HAWATOY (Seal of faith)
• KOINE
• KOINONIA
• KORIUN (1st half of 5th c.)
• L
• LABOR
• LACTANTIUS (ca. 260-ca. 330)
• LAIDCENN (or Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig) (d. 661)
• LAMB
• LAMBAESIS (Lambaesis, in Numidia, today Tazoult, in Algeria)
• LAMBERT (d. 705)
• LAMP
• LAMPSACUS, Council of
• LANGUAGES of the FATHERS
• LAODICEA, Councils of
• LAODICEANS, Letter to the
• LAPSI, Problem of the
• LAPSU SUSANNAE, De
• LATE ANTIQUITY
• LATIN TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK TEXTS
• LATIN, CHRISTIAN
• LATRONIANUS (d. 385)
• LAUDATIO SANCTI MARTINI
• LAUDE MARTYRII, De
• LAUDES DOMINI (317–323)
• LAUDES EUNOMIAE
• LAURA (λαυρα = narrow path)
• LAURENTIUS, antipope (d. after 507)
• LAWRENCE (Laurence) (1st half of 5th c.)
• LAWRENCE (Laurence), Roman martyr (d. 258)
• LAWRENCE (Laurence) of Canterbury (saint; d. 619)
• LAWRENCE (Laurence) of Milan
• LAY – LAYMAN – LAITY
• LAYING-ON of HANDS
• LAZARUS, RISEN (iconography)
• LAZARUS of Pharp (Łazar P‘arpec‘i; 2nd half of the 5th c.)
• LEANDER of Seville
• LECTIO DIVINA
• LENT
• LEO I, emperor of the East (401–474)
• LEO I, pope (440–461)
• LEO II, pope (682–683)
• LEO III the Isaurian
• LEO of Bourges (d. after 453)
• LEO of Sens (d. before 541)
• LEODEGAR of Autun (d. 678)
• LEONARD, saint (6th–10th c.?; feast 6 Nov)
• LEONIDES (2nd–3rd c.)
• LEONTIUS, Armenian (d. 454)
• LEONTIUS, Armenian (2nd half of the 8th c.)
• LEONTIUS, hegumen (8th c.)
• LEONTIUS, presbyter of Jerusalem (6th c.?)
• LEONTIUS of Antioch (d. 358)
• LEONTIUS of Arabissus (today Yarpuz, in E Turkey)
• LEONTIUS of Arles (5th c.)
• LEONTIUS of Byzantium (d. ca. 543)
• LEONTIUS of Caesarea (d. after 325)
• LEONTIUS of Constantinople (6th c.)
• LEONTIUS of Jerusalem (6th c.)
• LEONTIUS of Neapolis (590-ca. 650)
• LEONTIUS of Tripoli, martyr (d. 304)
• LEONTIUS Scholasticus (De Sectis) (6th/7th c.)
• LEOVIGILD (d. 586)
• LEPER (iconography)
• LEPORIUS (d. after 428/431)
• LEPTIS MAGNA
• LÉRIDA
• LÉRINS
• LETTER (Epistle)
• LETTER About SUNDAY
• LETTER of LENTULUS (so-called)
• LETTER of the CHURCH of LYONS and VIENNE
• LETTER TO SIGEBERT III or CLOVIS II (ca. 645)
• LETTERS (apocryphal)
• LETTERS of COMMUNION
• LEUCIUS CARINUS (3rd c.?)
• LEX ROMANA BURGUNDIONUM
• LEX ROMANA VISIGOTHORUM – Breviarium Alaricianum
• LIBANIUS (314–393/404)
• LIBELLI MIRACULORUM
• LIBELLUS
• LIBER DIURNUS
• LIBER GENEALOGUS
• LIBER GRADUUM
• LIBER MONSTRORUM
• LIBER ORATIONUM PSALMOGRAPHUS
• LIBER PONTIFICALIS (Gesta romanorum pontificum)
• LIBER XXI SENTENTIARUM
• LIBERATUS of Carthage (6th c.)
• LIBERIUS, pope (352–366)
• LIBERTAS MONACHORUM
• LIBRARIES, Christian
• LIBYA
• LICENTIUS (d. after 395)
• LICINIANUS of Cartagena (d. after 600)
• LICINIUS (d. 324)
• LICINIUS of Tours (d. 520)
• LIFE
• LIGHT (symbolism)
• LIGHTHOUSE
• LIGNO CRUCIS, De
• LINUS, pope (67?–76?)
• LITURGICAL DIALOGUE and DIDASCALIA
• LITURGICAL FURNISHINGS
• LITURGICAL YEAR
• LITURGY
• LITURGY and the BIBLE
• LIUTPRAND (ca. 690–744)
• LOMBARDS
• LONGINUS (d. after 580)
• LONGINUS (apocryphal)
• LONGOBARDS (Lombards)
• LORD'S PRAYER (Our Father)
• LOT (iconography)
• LOVE
• LUCIA (Lucy) of Syracuse (d. 304)
• LUCIAN of Antioch (d. 312)
• LUCIAN of Carthage (3rd c.)
• LUCIAN of Kefar Gamala (d. after 415)
• LUCIAN of Samosata (d. 190)
• LUCIDUS, presbyter (d. after 474)
• LUCIFER–LUCIFERIANS
• LUCILLA (d. after 312)
• LUCINIUS (Baeticus) (d. ca. 390)
• LUCIUS I, pope (d. 254)
• LUCIUS of Adrianople (d. after 343)
• LUCIUS of Alexandria (d. after 380)
• LUCULENTIUS (6th c.?)
• LUGDUNUM
• LUKE, Evangelist
• LUKE, Evangelist (apocryphal)
• LUPUS of Troyes (d. 479)
• LUSITANIA
• LUXORIUS (5th–6th c.)
• LYCIA and PAMPHYLIA
• LYONS
• M
• MACARIUS (4th–5th c.)
• MACARIUS (Simeon) (active 385–430, in the region of * Antioch)
• MACARIUS I of Jerusalem (bishop 314–333)
• MACARIUS II of Gerapolis
• MACARIUS of Alexandria (d. 394/400)
• MACARIUS of Antioch (bishop after 649 until 681)
• MACARIUS of Egypt (d. 386/390)
• MACARIUS of Jerusalem (bishop 552 and 563/564-574/575)
• MACARIUS of Magnesia (around 400)
• MACARIUS of Tkow (d. 452)
• MACEDONIA
• MACEDONIUS (4th–5th c.)
• MACEDONIUS, bishop
• MACEDONIUS I – MACEDONIANS (d. after 360)
• MACEDONIUS II of Constantinople, saint (d. 25 April 516)
• MACRINA
• MACROBIUS (d. after 365)
• MACROBIUS (4th–5th c.)
• MACROBIUS (early 5th c.)
• MACROCOSM and MICROCOSM
• MEDABA
• MADAUROS
• MAGI (the kings)
• MAGIC
• MAGNUS, martyr
• MAGNUS MAXIMUS, emperor (d. 388)
• MAIORINUS (early 4th c.)
• MALABAR
• MALCHION of Antioch
• MALCHUS of Philadelphia (5th c.)
• MALTA
• MAMAS (Mammas, Mammes, Mammet) of Caesarea
• MAMBRE VERCANOL, lector
• MANDEANS and MANDEISM
• MANI – MANICHEANS – MANICHEISM
• MANNA
• MANSUETUS of Milan (7th c.)
• MANUMISSION into the CHURCH
• MANUSCRIPT TRADITION
• MAPINIUS of Reims (6th c.)
• MAR MARI, Acts of
• MARA BAR SERAPION, Letter of
• MARANATHA
• MARATHONIUS of Nicomedia (4th c)
• MARCELLA (mid 4th c.–early 5th c.)
• MARCELLINA (2nd c.)
• MARCELLINA (4th c.; d. 17 July 397/401)
• MARCELLINUS, Luciferian
• MARCELLINUS, pope (d. 304)
• MARCELLINUS Comes (d. after 534)
• MARCELLINUS, Flavius (d. 413)
• MARCELLUS I, pope (d. 309)
• MARCELLUS of Ancyra (ca. 284–374)
• MARCIA (2nd c.)
• MARCIAN (Marcianus) (396–457)
• MARCIAN, ascetic (ca. 310–ca. 390)
• MARCIAN, presbyter (d. 471?)
• MARCIAN of Arles
• MARCION – MARCIONISM
• MARCION (Vita Polycarpi)
• MARCIONITE PROLOGUES
• MARCULFUS
• MARCULUS (d. 346)
• MARCUS AURELIUS, emperor (121–180)
• MARCUS DIADOCHUS
• MARIANUS and JACOBUS (d. 6 May 258)
• MARINA
• MARINUS
• MARINUS of Constantinople (4th c.)
• MARIS of Chalcedon (d. after 362)
• MARIUS MERCATOR (1st half of 5th c.)
• MARIUS of Avenches (d. 593/594)
• MARIUS CLAUDIUS VICTORIUS
• MARIUS VICTORINUS (ca. 280–285; d. after 363)
• MARK, Gospel of
• MARK, poet (7th c.)
• MARK, pope (d. 336)
• MARK, Secret Gospel of
• MARK of Arethusa (4th c.)
• MARK the Deacon
• MARK the Gnostic (2nd c.)
• MARK the Hermit
• MARO, anchorite monk (d. ca. 410)
• MARO, John (7th–8th c.)
• MARO of Edessa
• MARONITES
• MARRIAGE
• MARSEILLE
• MARTIAL and BASILIDES
• MARTIN I, pope (649–655)
• MARTIN of Braga (d. after 579)
• MARTIN of Tours (316/317–397)
• MARTINA
• MARTYR – MARTYRDOM
• MARTYRIO MACHABAEORUM, De
• MARTYRIUS (Sahdona) (7th c.)
• MARTYRIUS of Antioch (bishop 459–470/471)
• MARTYRIUS of Jerusalem (bishop 478–486)
• MARTYROLOGY
• MARUTA of Maiferqat (4th–5th c.)
• MARUTA of Tagrit (d. 649)
• MARY
• MARY (patristic literature)
• MARY MAGDALENE
• MARY of Egypt
• MARYS (the three)
• MASONA (Massona, Mausona) of Mérida
• MASS
• MASSA
• MATHEMATICI
• MATRISTICS
• MATTAI, mar
• MATTHEW, evangelist
• MATTHEW, Gospel of
• MATTHIAS, apostle
• MATTHIAS, apostle (apocryphal)
• MAURETANIA
• MAURICE, martyr
• MAURISTS
• MAURUS of Parentium (4th c.?)
• MAURUS of Ravenna (642–673)
• MAXENTIUS, emperor (d. 312)
• MAXIMA (Maximilla) and DONATILLA
• MAXIMIAN (d. 434)
• MAXIMIAN, Donatist (4th c.)
• MAXIMIAN, emperor (ca. 250–310)
• MAXIMIAN of Bagai (beginning of 5th c.)
• MAXIMIAN of Ravenna (bishop 546–556)
• MAXIMIAN of Syracuse (d. 594)
• MAXIMILIAN, martyr
• MAXIMILLA and PRISCILLA (2nd c.) (Priscilla is also called Prisca in * Tertullian)
• MAXIMINUS DAIA, emperor (d. 313)
• MAXIMINUS (MAXIMIAN) of Anazarbus
• MAXIMINUS of Sinita (d. before 411)
• MAXIMINUS of Trier (d. 346)
• MAXIMINUS the Arian (ca. 360/365–after 440)
• MAXIMINUS THRAX, emperor (173–238)
• MAXIMUS (d. after 416)
• MAXIMUS, antignostic
• MAXIMUS, bishop of * Jerusalem (d. 348?)
• MAXIMUS, martyr
• MAXIMUS of Antioch (5th c.)
• MAXIMUS of Riez (5th c.)
• MAXIMUS of Saragossa (d. ca. 620)
• MAXIMUS of Turin (I) (d. after 412)
• MAXIMUS of Turin (II) (5th c.)
• MAXIMUS the Confessor (ca. 580–662)
• MAXIMUS the Cynic (d. after 382)
• MEDICINE, Lecture on
• MEDITATION
• MELANIA the Elder (ca. 340–before 408)
• MELANIA the Younger (380/383–439)
• MELCHIZEDEK
• MELETIUS of Antioch (d. 381)
• MELETIUS of Mopsuestia
• MELITENE, Council of
• MELITIUS of Lycopolis – MELITIAN SCHISM (4th c.)
• MELITO of Sardis (2nd c.)
• MELKITES (from Syriac mălkāyā [“imperial”])
• MELLITUS (d. 24 April 624)
• MEMBERS of the CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
• MEMNON of Ephesus (ca. 428–440)
• MEMORIA – MEMORIA APOSTOLORUM
• MEMORY
• MENANDER (1st c.)
• MENAS
• MENNAS, martyr (d. ca. 295)
• MENSA
• MENSURIUS
• MÉRIDA
• MERITA
• MEROBAUDES, Flavius
• MEROVINGIAN COUNCILS
• MESOPOTAMIA (Roman province)
• MESOPOTAMIA, Christianity in
• MESROB (Mesrop) (ca. 361–439/440)
• MESSALIANS (Euchites)
• METEMPSYCHOSIS
• METHODIUS of Olympus (d. 311)
• METHODIUS of Olympus (pseudo)
• METRODORUS
• METROPOLITAN
• METRUM IN GENESIN (440–461)
• MICHAEL the ARCHANGEL
• MICHAEL the ARCHANGEL (iconography)
• MICHAEL BADOQA, the researcher (6th c.)
• MIDDLE PLATONISM
• MID-PENTECOST
• MILAN
• MILITIA
• MILK and HONEY
• MILLENARISM
• MILTIADES, apologist
• MILITIADES, pope (310–314)
• MINISTRIES (ordained ministers)
• MINUCIUS FELIX
• MIRACLE
• MIRACLES of JESUS (in Ethiopic, Ta'amra Iyasus)
• MIRACULIS S. STEPHANI, De
• MISAEL (Misahel) (d. after 537)
• MITHRAS – MITHRAISM
• MODESTUS (2nd c.)
• MODESTUS of Jerusalem (d. ca. 630)
• MOESIA (Mysia)
• MONACHIS PERFECTIS, De
• MONARCHIANS – MONARCHIANISM
• MONASTERIES, DOUBLE
• MONASTERY
• MONASTIC HABIT
• MONASTICISM
• MONAZONTES
• MONICA (331–387)
• MONOENERGISM – MONOTHELITISM
• MONOGRAM
• MONOGRAMMA CHRISTI, De
• MONOIMUS, gnostic
• MONOPHYSITISM – MONOPHYSITES
• MONOTHEISM
• MONTANUS – MONTANISM (2nd c.)
• MONTANUS of Toledo
• MONTANUS, LUCIUS and COMPANIONS
• MONTIBUS SINA ET SION, De
• MOON
• MOPSUESTIA, Council of
• MOS MAIORUM
• MOSAIC
• MOSES
• MOSES of Khorene (Movsēs Xorenac'i)
• MOSES the Saracen
• MTSKHETA-SVETI TSKHOVELI
• MUIRCHÚ (d. after 697)
• MURATORIAN FRAGMENT
• MUSANUS, polemicist
• MUSEUS of Marseille (d. ca. 461)
• MUSIC
• MUZIANUS (Mutianus) of Antioch (6th c.)
• MYSTAGOGY
• MYSTERY
• MYSTICAL BODY
• MYSTICISM – MYSTICAL THEOLOGY
• MYTHOLOGY
• N
• NABOR and FELIX
• NAG HAMMADI (writings of)
• NAIN, SON of the WIDOW of (iconography)
• NAME (ονομα, nomen)
• NAMES, CHRISTIAN
• NAPLES
• NARBONNE
• NARCISSUS of Jerusalem (d. after 212)
• NARCISSUS of Neronias (d. after 360)
• NARRATIO
• NARRATIO DE REBUS ARMENIAE (Διηγησις)
• NARRATIO DE REBUS PERSICIS (‘Εξηγησις των πραχθεντων εν Περσιδι)
• NARRATIONES DE CAEDE MONACHORUM IN MONTE SINAI
• NARRATIVES, CHRISTIAN
• NARSAI (Narses) (399–502)
• NARSES (490–574)
• NATALIUS (2nd–3rd c.)
• NATIVITY (apocryphal accounts of)
• NATIVITY (iconography)
• NATIVITY, Feast of the
• NATIVITY of MARY (apocryphal accounts of)
• NAUCRATIUS (ca. 320–ca. 356)
• NAVIGIUS (4th c.)
• NAZARENES (Nazoreans)
• NAZARENES (Nazoreans), Gospel of the
• NAZARETH
• NAZARIUS and CELSUS, martyrs
• NEBRIDIUS (d. before 391)
• NECTARIUS (d. 27 Sep 397)
• NEFALIUS
• NEMESIANUS and COMPANIONS, martyrs
• NEMESIUS of Emesa (4th–5th c.)
• NEOCAESAREA (Pontus)
• NEOCAESAREA, Council of
• NEOCHALCEDONIANISM
• NEONA of Seleucia (of Isauria) (4th c.)
• NEONICENISM
• NEOPHYTE
• NEOPLATONISM
• NEPOS
• NEPOTIANUS (d. 96)
• NEREUS and ACHILLEUS
• NERO (37–68)
• NERSES (Narsetes or Narsai or Nersetes)
• NESTORIUS – NESTORIANISM
• NESTORIUS of Bet Nuhadra (8th c.)
• NICAEA
• NICETA of Remesiana (4th–5th c.)
• NICETIUS of Trier (d. 569?)
• NICHOLAS of Ancyra (5th/6th c.?)
• NICHOLAS of Myra (d. 343)
• NICOLAITANS
• NICOMEDIA
• NILUS of Ancyra (d. 430?)
• NIMBUS – HALO (iconography)
• NÎMES, Council of
• NINIAN, saint
• NINO
• NISIBIS
• NISIBIS, School of
• NITRIA
• NOAH
• NOETUS of Smyrna (2nd half of the 2nd c.)
• NOLA-CIMITILE
• NOMINA SACRA
• NONNA (d. ca. 374)
• NONNUS of Panopolis (5th c.)
• NONNUS of Panopolis (pseudo)
• NORICUM
• NOTAE DE TEXTU EVANGELIORUM
• NOTARIUS
• NOTITIA DIGNITATUM
• NOTITIA GALLIARUM
• NOTITIA PROVINCIARUM ET CIVITATUM AFRICAE
• NOTITIA URBIS CONSTANTINOPOLITANAE
• NOUS
• NOVATIAN (d. after 251)
• NOVATIANUM, Ad
• NOVATIANISTS
• NOVATUS (d. 440)
• NOVATUS of Carthage (mid-3rd c.)
• NOVATUS the Catholic (d. before 530)
• NOVELLAE
• NOVIODUNUM
• NUBIA
• NUDITY, BAPTISMAL
• NUMBERS, SYMBOLISM of
• NUMENIUS of Apamea (2nd c.)
• NUMIDIA
• NUMISMATICS
• NYSSA
• O
• OAK, Synod of the
• OBLATIONS of the FAITHFUL
• OCEANUS (4th–5th c.)
• OCTATEUCH of Clement
• ODES of SOLOMON
• ODILIA (Othilia)
• ODOACER (Odovacar) (434–493)
• OECUMENIUS (late 6th c.)
• OGDOAS – OGDOAD (ογδοας)
• OIKEIOSIS
• OIL
• OLD AGE
• OLD and NEW
• OLYMPIA, deaconess (ca. 361/368–ca. 410)
• OLYMPIODORUS, deacon (6th c.)
• OLYMPIODORUS of Thebes (ca. 370–ca. 430)
• OLYMPIUS
• OLYMPIUS (d. 412)
• ONOMASTICS
• ONUPHRIUS (4th c.)
• OPERA OMNIA
• OPHITES – NAASSENES
• OPTATIANUS (260/270–before 335)
• OPTATUS of Milevis (4th c.)
• OPTATUS of Thamugadi
• OPUS IMPERFECTUM IN MATTHAEUM
• ORACLES
• ORANGE, Council of
• ORANS (iconography)
• ORATIO CYPRIANI
• ORDER – ORDINATION
• ORDINES ROMANI
• ORIENTATION
• ORIENTIUS (early 5th c.)
• ORIGEN (ca. 185–ca. 254)
• ORIGENISM
• ORIGEN the Neoplatonist (3rd c.)
• OROSIUS (4th–5th c.)
• ORPHEUS
• ORTHODOXY
• ORTU ET OBITU PROPHETARUM ET APOSTOLORUM, De
• OSROENE (Osrohene, Osrhoene)
• OSSIUS (Hosius) (ca. 256–d. after 357)
• OSTROGOTHS
• OUR FATHER
• OUSIA
• OXYRHYNCHUS
• P
• PACATUS (d. after ca. 410)
• PACHOMIUS (ca. 292–347)
• PACIAN (4th c.)
• PAGAN - PAGANISM
• PAHLAVI
• PAIDEIA
• PAINTING
• PALEOGRAPHY
• PALEOSLAVONIC, Translations in
• PALERMO
• PALESTINE
• PALIMPSEST
• PALLADIUS of Helenopolis (363/364–before 431)
• PALLADIUS of Ireland (1st half of the 5th c.)
• PALLADIUS of Ratiaria (d. after 383)
• PALLADIUS of Saintes (6th c.)
• PALLADIUS of Suedri
• PALM
• PALMAS of Amastris (2nd c.)
• PALMYRA
• PALUT (2nd–3rd c.)
• PAMMACHIUS (d. 410)
• PAMPHILUS of Caesarea (d. 16 February 310)
• PAMPHILUS of Jerusalem (6th–7th c.)
• PANCRAS, martyr
• PANEGYRIC
• PANEGYRICS, LATIN (4th c.)
• PANNONIA PRIMA
• PANNONIA SECUNDA
• PANODORUS
• PANTAENUS
• PANTALEON MEGALOMARTYR
• PANTHEISM
• PANTOCRATOR
• PANTOLEON (7th–8th c.)
• PAPA BAR AGGAI (d. 329)
• PAPACY
• PAPHNUTIUS
• PAPIAS of Hierapolis (2nd c.)
• PAPISCUS and PHILO, Dialogue of
• PAPYRUS - PAPYROLOGY
• PARABALANI (Parabolani)
• PARABLE
• PARACLETE
• PARADISE
• PARALYTIC, Healing of the (iconography)
• PARAPETASMA
• PARAPHRASES, BIBLICAL and HAGIOGRAPHICAL
• PARENESIS in the FATHERS
• PARENTIUM
• PARIS
• PARIS, Council of
• PARISH
• PARMENIAN
• PAROUSIA
• PARRHĒSIA
• PARTHEMIUS
• PARTHENIUS of Constantinople (5th c.)
• PASCENTIUS the ARIAN (beginning of the 5th c.)
• PASCHAL, antipope
• PASCHAL CANDLE
• PASCHALE CAMPANUM
• PASCHASINUS of Lilybaeum
• PASCHASIUS of Dumium
• PASCHASIUS of Rome (d. before 514)
• PASSIO SEPTEM MONACHORUM
• PASTOR
• PATERIKON
• PATERIUS
• PATERNIANS
• PATERNOSTER
• PATERNUS of Avranches (ca. 480–ca. 565)
• PATIENCE
• PATIENS of Lyons (d. ca. 480)
• PATRIARCHATE
• PATRICIANI
• PATRICIUS (d. 370/371)
• PATRICK, saint (d. ca. 492), apostle of * Ireland
• PATRIMONY of ST. PETER
• PATRIPASSIANS
• PATROCLUS, hermit (6th c.)
• PATROCLUS of Arles (d. 426)
• PATROLOGY - PATRISTICS
• PATRON
• PATRON SAINT
• PATROPHILUS of Scythopolis
• PAUL, apostle
• PAUL, apostle (apocryphal)
• PAUL AURELIAN
• PAUL II
• PAUL of Antioch (d. 582)
• PAUL of Apamea
• PAUL of Aphrodisia
• PAUL of Callinicum (5th–6th c.)
• PAUL of Canopus
• PAUL of Concordia (d. after 381)
• PAUL of Constantinople (d. after 350)
• PAUL of Edessa (7th c.)
• PAUL of Elusa (d. 522)
• PAUL of Emesa (1st half of the 5th c.)
• PAUL of Jerash (6th c.)
• PAUL of Leon (d. 572/575)
• PAUL of Merida (7th c.)
• PAUL of Narbonne (3rd c)
• PAUL of Nisibis (or Paul the Persian)
• PAUL of Samosata (3rd c.)
• PAUL of Tamma
• PAUL of Tella (7th c.)
• PAUL of Thebes (4th c.)
• PAUL of Verdun (d. 648/49)
• PAUL SILENTIARIUS (6th c.)
• PAUL the SIMPLE, saint (4th c.)
• PAULA (347–404)
• PAULICIANS
• PAULINIANS
• PAULINIANUS (4th c.–beginning of 5th. c)
• PAULINUS of Antioch (d. after 382)
• PAULINUS of Bordeaux
• PAULINUS of Milan
• PAULINUS of Nola (355–431)
• PAULINUS of Pella (d. after 459)
• PAULINUS of Perigueux
• PAULINUS of Trier
• PAULINUS of Tyre
• PAULINUS of York (d. 10 October 644)
• PEACE
• PEACOCK
• PEKTORIOS (Pectorius) (inscription)
• PELAGIA martyr
• PELAGIUS (ca. 354–ca. 427) - PELAGIANS - PELAGIANISM
• PELAGIUS I, pope (556–561)
• PELAGIUS II, pope (579–590)
• PELAGIUS of Laodicea
• PELLA
• PELUSIUM
• PENANCE
• PENTAPOLIS
• PENTARCHY
• PENTECOST
• PEPUZA
• PEREGRINUS
• PEREGRINUS of Auxerre
• PEREGRINUS, exegete
• PERFUME
• PERICHORESIS (Gk. περιχωρησις)
• PERIGENES
• PERIODEUTA
• PERPETUA and FELICITAS
• PERPETUUS of Tours (d. 491)
• PERSECUTIONS
• PERSIA
• PERSONA - PERSON
• PERSONIFICATIONS
• PESHITTA
• PETER apostle
• PETER APSELAMOS or BALSAMOS (d. 309)
• PETER CHRYSOLOGUS (ca. 380–450)
• PETER MONGUS (d. 490)
• PETER I of Alexandria (d. ca. 311)
• PETER II of Alexandria (d. 381)
• PETER IV of Alexandria (d. 577)
• PETER of Altinum (5th–6th c)
• PETER of Apamea (d. after 536)
• PETER of Callinicum
• PETER of Jerusalem (d. 552)
• PETER of Mira
• PETER of Perembolae (d. before 441)
• PETER II of Sebaste (ca. 344–ca. 394)
• PETER of Trajanopolis (5th c.)
• PETER the DEACON (d. after 604)
• PETER the FULLER (d. 488)
• PETER the IBERIAN (d. 491)
• PETER the PATRICIAN (6th c.), also called “Peter the Orator,” Byzantine historian
• PETILIAN
• PETITIONES ARIANORUM
• PETRA
• PETRONILLA, martyr
• PETRONIUS of Bologna
• PHILASTER PHILASTRIUS
• PHILEAS of Thmuis (d. 306)
• PHILIP, apostle
• PHILIP, apostle (apocryphal)
• PHILIP, deacon
• PHILIP, presbyter (d. after 431)
• PHILIP, priest (d. 455/456)
• PHILIP of Gortyna (2nd c.)
• PHILIP of Side (5th c.)
• PHILIP the Arab
• PHILIP the Gnostic (3rd c.)
• PHILIPPI
• PHILO, historiographer (between the 4th and 7th c.)
• PHILO of Alexandria (1st c.)
• PHILO of Carpasia (d. beginning of 5th c.)
• PHILOCALIA
• PHILOCALUS (or Filocalus), Furius Dionysius (d. ca. 382)
• PHILOGONIUS of Antioch (d. 324)
• PHILOMENA, martyr
• PHILOSOPHY and ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY
• PHILOSTORGIUS (d. ca. 430)
• PHILOTHEUS
• PHILOTHEUS, catenist (5th–6th c.)
• PHILOXENUS of Mabbug (d. 523)
• PHILUMENE the Marcionite (2nd c.)
• PHINEHAS (iconography)
• PHOCAS of Sinope (d. 305?)
• PHOEBADIUS (d. after 392)
• PHOENIX (iconography)
• PHOS HILARON
• PHOTINUS of Constantinople (d. after 610)
• PHOTINUS of Sirmium (d. after 362)
• PHOTIUS (ca. 820–891)
• PHRYGIA
• PHYSICIAN, CHRIST the
• PHYSIOLOGUS
• PIERIUS of Alexandria (d. after 309)
• PIETY
• PILATE
• PILGRIMAGES (Peregrinatio)
• PIMENIUS, martyr
• PINIANUS (d. 432)
• PINYTUS
• PIONIUS
• PIONIUS (pseudo)
• PIRMINIUS (8th c.)
• PISENTHIUS of Kepht (d. 632)
• PIUS I, pope (ca. 140–ca. 155)
• PLATONISM and the FATHERS
• PLEROMA (πληρωμα)
• PLEROPHORIAE
• PLINY the Younger (61/62–after 113)
• PLOTINUS (ca. 204–270)
• PNEUMA - SPIRIT (πνευμα)
• PNEUMATOMACHOI
• POEMA ULTIMUM
• POEMENIA (4th c.)
• POETRY, CHRISTIAN
• POETRY, SYRIAC
• POITIERS
• POLEMIUS SILVIUS
• POLEMON the Apollinarist
• POLITICS
• POLLENTIUS (beginning of the 5th c.)
• POLYCARP (d. 167)
• POLYCHRONIUS of Apamea
• POLYCRATES of Ephesus
• POLYEUCTUS, martyr (3rd c.)
• POMPA DIABOLI
• POMPONIA GRAECINA (1st c.)
• POMPONIUS
• PONTIANUS, bishop (6th c.)
• PONTIANUS (Pontian), pope (ca. 230–235)
• PONTICIANUS (4th c.)
• PONTIFEX MAXIMUS
• PONTIUS, deacon
• PONTUS
• POOR – POVERTY
• POPE
• PORCARIUS of Lerins, martyr
• PORPHYRY of Antioch (d. 413)
• PORPHYRY of Gaza, bishop (ca. 347–420)
• PORPHYRY of Philippi
• PORPHYRY of Tyre (232/233–305?), philosopher
• PORTER
• PORTRAIT
• PORTUGAL
• POSIDONIUS (d. after 430)
• POSSESSOR
• POSSIDIUS (d. after 437)
• POTAMIANA and BASILIDES, martyrs
• POTAMION (Potamon) of Heraclea (4th c.)
• POTAMIUS of Lisbon (d. before 383/384)
• POTHINUS of Lyons
• PRAEDESTINATUS
• PRAETEXTATUS, Vettius Agorius, consul (d. 385)
• PRAGMATICA SANCTIO
• PRAILIUS of Jerusalem
• PRAXEAS (3rd c.)
• PRAXEDIS
• PRAYER
• PREACHING
• PREDESTINATION
• PRESANCTIFIED
• PRESBYTERS
• PRESBYTERS, APOSTOLIC
• PRESENTATION in the TEMPLE
• PRIESTHOOD of BELIEVERS
• PRIMASIUS of Hadrumetum (6th c.)
• PRIMIAN of Carthage
• PRIMICERIUS
• PRINCIPIA DIALECTICAE
• PRISCA saint
• PRISCIAN
• PRISCILLA
• PRISCILLIAN – PRISCILLIANISM
• PRISCUS, historian (5th c.)
• PRIVATUS
• PRIVATUS of Lambaesis (3rd c.)
• PROBA (4th c.)
• PROCESSION
• PROCHORUS
• PROCLUS, Montanist
• PROCLUS LYCIUS DIADOCHUS (d. 484/485)
• PROCLUS of Constantinople (before 390–446)
• PROCOPIUS
• PROCOPIUS of Gaza (465–ca. 530)
• PROCOPIUS the Usurper (ca. 326–366)
• PROCULLIANUS (4th–5th c.)
• PROCULUS of Marseille, bishop (5th c.)
• PROFUTURUS
• PROFUTURUS of Braga
• PROGRESS
• PROHAERESIUS (4th c.)
• PROJECTUS, bishop (d. after 431)
• PROLOGUES to the BIBLICAL BOOKS
• PROLOGUS PASCHAE AD VITALEM
• PROPERTY, ECCLESIASTICAL
• PROPHET
• PROPHETIAE EX OMNIBUS LIBRIS COLLECTAE
• PROPHETS, List of
• PROSELYTE
• PROSOPON
• PROSPER of Aquitaine (d. after 455)
• PROSTITUTION
• PROTERIUS the Alexandrian (4th c.)
• PROTEVANGELIUM of JAMES
• PROTOGENES of Serdica (d. after 343)
• PROTOKTISTI (Protoktistoi)
• PROTOLOGY - STUDY of ORIGINS
• PROTOPASCHITES
• PROTREPTIC
• PROVERBIA GRAECORUM
• PROVIDENCE
• PRUDENTIUS (348?–after 405)
• PSALMODY
• PSALMS, BOOK of
• PSALMUS RESPONSORIUS
• PSEUDEPIGRAPHY
• PSOTES of Psoi (d. 305)
• PSYCHICI (ψυχικοι)
• PTOLEMY and LUCIUS
• PTOLEMY the Gnostic
• PUBLISHING
• PUBLIUS of Athens (2nd c.)
• PUDENS and PUDENTIANA
• PULCHERIA (AELIA PULCHERIA AUGUSTA) (399-453)
• PULCHRITUDINE MUNDI, De
• PUNIC
• PURGATORY
• PURIFICATION
• PURPLE
• PYRRHUS
• Q
• QALAT SEMAN
• QIIORE (d. 436/437)
• QUADRATUS, apologist
• QUADRATUS of Athens (pseudo)
• QUAESTIONES ET RESPONSIONES on Holy Scripture
• QUAILS, MIRACLE of the (iconography)
• QUARTODECIMANS
• QUICUMQUE VULT
• QUINISEXT
• QUINTASIUS of Carales (d. after 314)
• QUIRICUS
• QUIRICUS of Barcelona
• QUIRINUS, martyr
• QUMRAN
• QUO VADIS?
• QUOD IDOLA DII NON SINT (That Idols Are Not Gods)—hereafter, QId
• QUODVULTDEUS (d. 454)
• R
• RABBAN SHABUR
• RABBULA of Edessa (d. 435)
• RADEGUND (520-587)
• RANSOM of PRISONERS
• RAPE
• RATIO PASCHAE (or Cyclus paschalis annorum LXXXIV)
• RATIONE EMBOLISMORUM, De
• RATIONE PASCHAE, De (or Computus Carthaginensis AD 455)
• RATIONE PASCHAE, Prologus de (or Ratione Paschae, Praefatio de)
• RATIONE PASCHAE, Tractatus de
• RATIONE PASCHALI, Disputatio de
• RATIONES SEMINALES
• RAVENNA
• RAVENNIUS of Arles (d. 460/461)
• REBAPTISMATE, De
• REBEKAH (iconography)
• RECAPITULATION
• RECARED (mid 6th c.–601)
• RECTA IN DEUM FIDE, De
• REDEMPTION
• REFRIGERIUM
• REGINUS. (5th c.)
• REGULA FIDEI
• REIMS
• RELICS
• REMIGIUS of Reims
• RESTITUTUS (Restutus) (4th c.)
• RESURRECTION of CHRIST (iconography)
• RESURRECTION of the DEAD
• RETICIUS of Autun (d. ca. 334)
• REUSE
• REVELATION
• REVELATION, Book of
• REVERENTIUS
• RHAETIA (Raetia)
• RHETORIC
• RHODANIUS of Toulouse
• RHODON
• RICH – RICHES – PROPERTY
• RIEZ, Council of
• RIGHTEOUSNESS (Justice)
• RIMINI, Council of
• RING
• ROGATION DAYS
• ROGATUS (d. before 408)
• ROMAN LAW and CHRISTIANITY
• ROMANIANUS
• ROMANUS, martyr
• ROMANUS MELODUS (d. after 555)
• ROMANUS of Roso (6th c.)
• ROME
• ROTHARI
• RUFINUS (Friend of Prosper of Aquitaine) (d. after 429)
• RUFINUS FLAVIUS (ca. 335–395)
• RUFINUS of Aquileia (345–410)
• RUFINUS the Syrian (d. after 415)
• RUFUS of Octodurum
• RUFUS of Shotep (6th–7th c.)
• RUFUS of Thessalonica
• RULES, MONASTIC
• RUNIC
• RUPERT of Salzburg (d. after 716)
• RURICIUS of Limoges (5th–6th c.)
• RUSTICUS, deacon (6th c.)
• RUSTICUS, poet (5th c.)
• RUSTICUS, presbyter
• RUSTICUS of Narbonne (d. 26 October 461)
• S
• SABAS (439–532)
• SABBATH
• SABELLIUS – SABELLIANISM
• SABINA
• SABINIAN (Sabinianus), pope (604–606)
• SABINUS of Canosa (d. ca. 566)
• SABINUS of Heraclea
• SABINUS of Piacenza (4th c.)
• SABRATHA
• SACERDOTIO CHRISTI, De (apocryphal text)
• SACRAMENT (Sacramentum)
• SACRAMENTAL SECRECY
• SACRAMENTARY
• SACRAMENTS
• SACRIFICE
• SACRILEGIUM (Gk. ιεροσυλειν = sacra legere, rapere, auferre, clepere)
• SAECULUM (world/age)
• SAHAK the Great (Isaac; Armenian catholicos, 387–438)
• SAHDONA
• SAINT and HOLINESS
• SAINTS, FOOLISH (Holy Fools)
• SAINTS, INTERCESSION of
• SALLUSTIUS the Neoplatonist (d. 378/379?)
• SALONA
• SALONIUS of Geneva (ca. 400–after 500)
• SALSA of Tipasa (4th c.)
• SALT
• SALVIAN of Marseille (5th c.)
• SALVIUS (5th c.)
• SAMARITANS
• SAMSON (iconography)
• SAMUEL of Qalamun (Kalamun) (d. 695)
• SANCTE DEUS, LUCIS LUMEN, CONCORDIA RERUM (ps.-Paulinus of Nola)
• SANCTUARY
• SARACENS
• SARAGOSSA
• SARCOPHAGI, Early Christian
• SARDICA
• SARDINIA
• SASSANIDS
• SATISFACTIO
• SATOR / AREPO
• SATORNILUS (Saturninus)
• SATURNINUS and DATIVUS, martyrs
• SATURNINUS of Arles (4th c.)
• SATURNINUS of Cagliari
• SATURNINUS of Rome
• SATURNINUS of Toulouse, martyr (3rd c.)
• SATYRUS (ca. 330–375/378)
• SAVIA
• SAYINGS of JESUS, apocryphal
• SCAPULA
• SCETE, Desert of
• SCHISM – SCHISMATIC
• SCHOLASTICA
• SCHOLASTICUS
• SCHOLION
• SCHOOL
• SCILLITAN MARTYRS
• SCOTLAND
• SCRIBE – RABBI
• SCRIPTURE, HOLY
• SCRIPTURE, HOLY (Ancient Versions)
• SCULPTURE
• SCYTHIA MINOR
• SCYTHOPOLIS
• SEAL
• SEBASTE
• SEBASTIAN
• SEBEOS (Eusebius)
• SECOND COMING of CHRIST
• SECRETUM (Secrecy)
• SECUNDIANUS of Singidunum
• SECUNDINUS, Manichean
• SECUNDINUS of Ireland, bishop (d. ca. 447)
• SECUNDUS, gnostic
• SECUNDUS of Tigisis
• SECUNDUS of Trent (d. 512)
• SEDATUS of Beziers (Sedatus Biterrensis)
• SEDATUS of Nimes (6th c.)
• SEDULIUS
• SELEUCIA - CTESIPHON
• SELEUCIA - CTESIPHON, School of
• SELEUCIA in ISAURIA, Council of
• SEMIARIANS
• SEMI-PELAGIANS
• SENATOR of Milan (5th c.)
• SENECA and PAUL, Correspondence of
• SENIORES LAICI
• SENTENTIAE EPISCOPORUM
• SENTENTIAE S. AUGUSTINI et ISIDORI
• SEPTEM ORDINIBUS, De
• SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, emperor
• SERAPEION (Serapeum) in Alexandria
• SERAPION of Antioch (2nd c.)
• SERAPION of Thmuis (d. after 362)
• SERDICA (Sardica)
• SERGIA (7th c.)
• SERGIOPOLIS
• SERGIUS, patriarch (610–638)
• SERGIUS, pope (687–701)
• SERGIUS (ps.-Cassiodorus) (5th c.)
• SERGIUS AMPHIATOR (The Sacristan)
• SERGIUS and BACCHUS, martyrs
• SERGIUS GRAMMATICUS (6th c.)
• SERGIUS of Cyprus
• SERGIUS of Rish'ayna (d. 536)
• SERGIUS PAULUS (1st c.)
• SERGIUS the STYLITE (8th c.)
• SERMO Sermon
• SERMO ARIANORUM
• SERMON on the MOUNT (iconography)
• SERMONS, AFRICAN (anonymous)
• SERMONS, ARIAN (anonymous)
• SERMONS, DONATIST
• SERPENT
• SERVANUS
• SERVATIUS of Tongres (d. ca. 384)
• SERVUS DEI
• SETHIANS
• SETIF
• SEVEN MARTYRS of CAPSA
• SEVEN SLEEPERS of EPHESUS
• SEVERIAN of Gabala (d. 408/425)
• SEVERINUS, pope (638–640)
• SEVERINUS of Cologne (late 4th c.)
• SEVERINUS of Noricum (5th c.)
• SEVERUS
• SEVERUS of Antioch (d. 538)
• SEVERUS of Aquileia (586–607)
• SEVERUS of Malaga (d. ca. 602)
• SEVERUS of Milevis
• SEVERUS of Minorca (d. after 419)
• SEVERUS of Naples (d. 409?)
• SEVERUS of Ravenna (d. after 343)
• SEVERUS of Synnada (5th c.)
• SEVILLE
• SEXTUS, antignostic
• SEXTUS, Sentences of
• SEXUALITY
• SHAPUR
• SHEEP
• SHENOUTE
• SHEPHERD, THE GOOD
• SHIP
• SICCA VENERIA
• SICILY, Council of
• SIDE, Council of
• SIDI JDIDI
• SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS (ca. 431–ca. 486)
• SIGISMUND
• SIGISTHEUS
• SILVANUS of Cirta (4th c.)
• SILVANUS of Tarsus (4th c.)
• SILVERIUS, pope (536–537)
• SIMEON BAR SABBA (d. 344)
• SIMEON of Beth Arsham (d. before 548)
• SIMEON of Edessa (Emesa), The Holy Fool (1st half of the 6th c.)
• SIMEON of Jerusalem
• SIMEON STYLITES the Elder (d. 459; feast day, 27 July among the Syrians, 1 September among the Greeks)
• SIMEON STYLITES the Younger (521–592)
• SIMON, apostle (apocryphal)
• SIMON BARQAJĀ (end of the 6th c.–beginning of the 7th c.)
• SIMON MAGUS - SIMONIANS
• SIMON (Simeon) of Taybutheh
• SIMON the ZEALOT, apostle
• SIMONY
• SIMPLICIANUS of Milan (d. 400/401)
• SIMPLICIUS, pope (468–483)
• SIMPLICIUS of Vienne (d. 439?)
• SIN
• SINAI
• SINGIDUNUM (Belgrade)
• SINGULARITATE CLERICORUM, De
• SIRICIUS, pope (384–399)
• SIRMIUM
• SISBERT of Toledo (7th c.)
• SISEBUT of Toledo
• SISINNIUS, Novatianist (late 4th c.)
• SISINNIUS, pope (d. 708)
• SISINNIUS, MARTYRIUS and ALEXANDER, martyrs
• SISINNIUS of Constantinople, archbishop (426– 427)
• SIXTUS I, pope (ca. 115–ca. 128)
• SIXTUS II, pope (257–258)
• SIXTUS III, pope (432–440)
• SLAVERY
• SMYRNA
• SOCRATES
• SOCRATES of Constantinople (Scholasticus)
• SODOM (iconography)
• SODOM, De
• SOGDIAN
• SOLEMNITATIBUS ET SABBATIS, Disputatio de
• SOLOMON (iconography)
• SOLSTITIIS ET AEQUINOCTIIS, De
• SOLUTIONES OBJECTIONUM ARIANORUM
• SONG OF SONGS (Canticle of Canticles)
• SONNATIUS of Reims
• SOPHRONIUS (Jerome's friend) (d. after 392)
• SOPHRONIUS of Jerusalem (ca. 550–638)
• SOPHRONIUS of Pompeiopolis (4th c.)
• SORTES SANCTORUM
• SORTES SANGALLENSES
• SOTER, pope (ca. 166–ca. 175)
• SOTERIC of Caesarea (d. 537)
• SOTERIOLOGY
• SOTERIS (Sotheris), martyr
• SOUL (Human)
• SOZOMEN (5th c.)
• SPAIN and PORTUGAL
• SPES (4th–5th c)
• SPIRITUAL COMBAT
• SPIRITUALITY
• SPONSA CHRISTI
• SPYRIDON (3rd–4th c.)
• STATUTA ECCLESIAE ANTIQUA
• STENOGRAPHY
• STEPHEN (Eddius Stephanus)
• STEPHEN, the first martyr
• STEPHEN, the first martyr (apocryphal)
• STEPHEN I, pope (254–257)
• STEPHEN II of Hierapolis-Mabbug (end of the 6th c.)
• STEPHEN BAR SUDHAILE (5th–6th c.)
• STEPHEN GOBAR
• STEPHEN of Bostra (7th–8th c.)
• STEPHEN of Ephesus (5th c)
• STEPHEN of Larissa (6th c.)
• STEPHEN of Thebes
• STILICHO, Flavius (ca. 360–408)
• STOBI
• STOICISM and the FATHERS
• STRATEGIUS (Strategus)
• STYLITE – STYLITISM
• SUB TUUM PRAESIDIUM
• SUBDEACON
• ŠUBḤALMARAN
• SUBORDINATIONISM
• SUCCENSUS (d. ca. 440)
• SUCCESSION, APOSTOLIC
• SUETONIUS (70–ca. 140)
• SUICIDE
• SUIDAS (Sudas)
• SULPICIUS SEVERUS (ca. 360–ca. 420)
• SUN, CULT of the
• SUNDAY
• SUPERSTITION
• SUSANNA
• SUSANNA, martyr – CHURCH of SAINT SUSANNA
• SYAGRIUS (mid-5th c.)
• SYAGRIUS of Autun (d. ca. 600)
• SYLVESTER I, pope (314–335)
• SYLVIA (d. before 594)
• SYMBOLS – SYMBOLISM
• SYMBOLUM NICAENUM, Commentarius in
• SYMBOLUM NICAENUM, Enarratio in
• SYMMACHIAN FORGERIES.
• SYMMACHIANS
• SYMMACHUS, Aurelius Anicius (ca. 380– ca. 430)
• SYMMACHUS, exegete
• SYMMACHUS, pope (498–514)
• SYMMACHUS, Quintus Aurelius (340–402)
• SYMMACHUS, Quintus Aurelius Memmius (ca. 450–525)
• SYMMACHUS, translator (late 2nd c.)
• SYMPHOROSA
• SYMPHOSIUS (Symposius)
• SYMPRONIANUS (4th c.)
• SYNAGOGUE
• SYNAXIS
• SYNCLETICA
• SYNCLETICA, nun
• SYNCRETISM
• SYNESIUS of Cyrene (ca. 370–ca. 413)
• SYNODITES
• SYNODOS ALEXANDRINA.
• SYNOUSIASTS
• SYRACUSE
• SYRIA
• SYRIAC
• SYRIAC PALESTINIAN CHRISTIAN.
• SYRO-ROMAN LAWBOOK
• T
• TABARKA
• TABITHA (iconography)
• TABULA PASCHALIS PETROCORICENSIS
• TABULAE ALBERTINI
• TACITUS on CHRISTIANS
• TAIO of Saragossa (7th c.)
• TALMUD and MISHNAH
• TANAKH
• TANNAIM (literally “teachers”)
• TARGUM
• TARRA
• TARRACONENSIS
• TARRAGONA
• TARSICIUS (Tarcisius)
• TARSUS
• TATIAN (mid-2nd c.)
• TATWINE
• TAUROBOLIUM
• TAURUS, praetorian prefect
• TE DECET LAUS
• TE DEUM
• TEBESSA
• TELESPHORUS
• TEMPLE
• TEMPTATION
• TERASIA (ca. 370–409/415)
• TERRASSA (ancient Egara)
• TERTIUM GENUS
• TERTULLIAN
• TERTULLIANISTS
• TESTAMENTS of the TWELVE PATRIARCHS
• TESTAMENTUM DOMINI (Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ)
• TESTIMONIA
• TESTIMONIES ON THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT (or The Florilegium Fuldense) (5th c.; * Africa)
• TESTIMONIUM FLAVIANUM
• TESTIMONY – WITNESS
• TETRAMORPH
• THAGASTE
• THALASSIUS
• THALASSIUS of Angers
• THAMUGADI
• THEBAID
• THEBAN LEGION
• THECLA
• THECLA, ACTS of
• THEFT of the GREEKS
• THELA (Thelepte), Council of
• THEMISTIUS
• THEOCTISTUS of Caesarea (d. after 260)
• THEODELINDA (Theodolinda)
• THEODERIC (Theodoric) the Great
• THEODORA (497–548)
• THEODORA and DIDYMUS, martyrs
• THEODORE, martyr
• THEODORE, monk
• THEODORE, pope (642–649)
• THEODORE, presbyter (d. after 687)
• THEODORE ABU QURRAH
• THEODORE ASKIDAS (d. 558)
• THEODORE BAR KONI (8th c.)
• THEODORE of Alexandria
• THEODORE of Aquileia (d. 319?)
• THEODORE of Bostra (d. after 570)
• THEODORE of Canterbury
• THEODORE of Constantinople (7th c.)
• THEODORE of Copros
• THEODORE of Echinus (5th c.)
• THEODORE of Heraclea (d. ca. 355)
• THEODORE of Marseille (d. 594)
• THEODORE of Martigny (d. after 390)
• THEODORE of Mopsuestia (d. 428)
• THEODORE of Paphos (7th c.)
• THEODORE of Petra (6th c.)
• THEODORE of Pharan (570–ca. 638)
• THEODORE of Philae
• THEODORE of Raithu (d. 649?)
• THEODORE of Scythopolis
• THEODORE of Tabennesi (d. 368)
• THEODORE of Trimethus
• THEODORE of Tyana (4th c.)
• THEODORE SPUDAEUS (7th c.)
• THEODORE SYNCELLUS (7th c.)
• THEODORE the LECTOR
• THEODORET of CYRRHUS (ca. 393–ca. 466)
• THEODOSIUS, archdeacon (6th c.)
• THEODOSIUS, cenobiarch (423–529)
• THEODOSIUS, monk
• THEODOSIUS I (the Great), emperor (347–395)
• THEODOSIUS II, emperor (401–450)
• THEODOSIUS of Alexandria (6th c.)
• THEODOSIUS of Carthage, deacon (6th c.)
• THEODOSIUS of Gangra (d. after 662)
• THEODOTION (2nd c.)
• THEODOTUS and the SEVEN VIRGINS
• THEODOTUS of Ancyra (d. before 446)
• THEODOTUS of Antioch (d. 429)
• THEODOTUS of Byzantium, banker
• THEODOTUS of Byzantium, tanner
• THEODOTUS of Laodicea (4th c.)
• THEODOTUS the Valentinian (2nd c.)
• THEODULUS (5th c.)
• THEOGNIOS
• THEOGNIS of Nicaea (4th c.)
• THEOGNOSTUS (3rd c.)
• THEOGNOSTUS (5th c.)
• THEOLOGIA NEGATIVA – VIA NEGATIVA
• THEOLOGY
• THEONAS of Alexandria (d. ca. 300)
• THEONAS TRITHEIST
• THEOPASCHITES
• THEOPHANES the CONFESSOR (760–818)
• THEOPHANY (iconography)
• THEOPHILUS of Alexandria, patriarch (385–412)
• THEOPHILUS of Antioch (2nd c.)
• THEOPHILUS of Antioch (pseudo)
• THEOPHILUS of Caesarea
• THEOPHILUS of Castabala (d. 377)
• THEOPHILUS the INDIAN (d. 361)
• THEOPHYLACT SIMOCATTA (ca. 580–after 630)
• THEOPISTE, deacon (pseudo) (6th c.)
• THEORIA
• THEOSEBIA
• THEOSIS
• THEOSOPHY
• THEOTECNUS of Caesarea, bishop
• THEOTECNUS of Livia
• THEOTIMUS of Tomi (4th–5th c.)
• THEOTIMUS the Valentinian
• THEOTOKOS
• THERMAL BATHS
• THESSALONICA
• THESSALY
• THEURGY
• THIEF, GOOD
• THOMAS, apostle
• THOMAS (apocryphal)
• THOMAS of Edessa
• THOMAS of Germanicia (Euphrates)
• THOMAS of Heraclea (d. after 616)
• THOMAS of Marga (d. after 850)
• THRACE
• THRASEAS of Eumenia (2nd c.)
• THREE CHAPTERS, Controversy of the
• TIBERIANUS
• TIBERIUS, emperor (42 BC–AD 37)
• TIBURTINE SIBYL
• TIME
• TIMGAD
• TIMOTHY, Apollinarist (bishop of Berytus, ca. 381–399)
• TIMOTHY, apostle (apocryphal)
• TIMOTHY, disciple of Paul
• TIMOTHY and AQUILA, Dialogue of
• TIMOTHY I, Nestorian (ca. 727–823)
• TIMOTHY I of Alexandria (d. ca. 385)
• TIMOTHY II of Alexandria
• TIMOTHY IV (III) of Alexandria
• TIMOTHY of Alexandria (5th c.)
• TIMOTHY of Antioch
• TIMOTHY of Constantinople (6th–7th c.)
• TIMOTHY of Jerusalem (6th c.)
• TIMOTHY SALOFACIOLUS (d. 482)
• TIPASSA
• TIRECHAN
• TITULI PSALMORUM
• TITULUS
• TITUS
• TITUS (apocryphal)
• TITUS, emperor (AD 39–81)
• TITUS of Bostra (d. ca. 378)
• TOBIT
• TOLEDO
• TOMI or TOMIS (Constanţa, Romania)
• TOMUS AD FLAVIANUM
• TONANTIUS (Ferreolus) (5th c.)
• TONSURE
• TOPOGRAPHY, CHRISTIAN
• TOTILA
• TOULOUSE
• TOURS
• TRACTATUS
• TRACTATUS CONTRA ARIANOS
• TRADITIO LEGIS ET CLAVIUM (iconography)
• TRADITION
• TRADITOR (Traitor)
• TRADUCIANISM
• TRAJAN, emperor (53–117)
• TRANSITUS MARIAE
• TRANSLATIO IMPERII
• TRANSLATIO STUDII
• TRANSLATIONS, PATRISTIC
• TRAVEL – MEANS of COMMUNICATION
• TRIER
• TRIFOLIUS, presbyter (6th c.)
• TRINITATE FIDEI CATHOLICAE, De
• TRINITATE, De, (ps.-)Athanasius
• TRINITY
• TRISAGION
• TRITHEISM
• TRIUMPHUS CHRISTI HEROICUS
• TROJANUS of Saintes (d. before 533)
• TROPAEUM TRAIANI (Adamclisi, district of Constanţa, Romania)
• TROPHIES of DAMASCUS
• TROPHIMUS of Arles (3rd c.)
• TROPICI
• TROPOLOGY
• TRULLO (Quinisext), Council in
• TRUTH
• TUR'ABDIN
• TURA
• TURIBIUS of Astorga
• TURIN
• TYANA
• TYCHON (Tikhon, Tichon), saint
• TYCONIUS
• TYPOLOGY
• TYRE
• U
• ULFILA
• UNITY
• UNUS EX TRINITATE PASSUS EST
• URANIUS, presbyter
• URBAN I, pope (222–230)
• URBANUS of Sicca (5th c.)
• URBS BEATA JERUSALEM
• URSACIUS of Singidunum
• URSINIUS, Testimony of (apocryphal)
• URSINUS, antipope (d. 385)
• URSINUS of Bourges (3rd c.)
• URSULA and the 11,000 virgin martyrs
• USURY
• UZALIS
• V
• VAGHARSHAPAT – ETCHMIADZIN
• VAISON, Council of
• VALENCE, Council of
• VALENS, emperor (d. 378)
• VALENS of Mursa and URSACIUS of Singidunum
• VALENTINIAN I (d. 375)
• VALENTINIAN II (371–392)
• VALENTINIAN III (419-455)
• VALENTINUS (d. after 416)
• VALENTINUS, martyr
• VALENTINUS the Apollinarist
• VALENTINUS the Gnostic (2nd c.)
• VALERIA
• VALERIAN, emperor (ca. 193–260)
• VALERIAN of Aquileia (d. 388)
• VALERIAN of Calahorra (Calagurris)
• VALERIAN of Cimiez (d. ca. 460)
• VALERIUS of Bierzo (d. after 691)
• VANDALS
• VANNES, Council of
• VARIMADUM, Contra
• VATICAN
• VEDASTUS, saint (d. 540)
• VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS (ca. 535–ca. 600)
• VENERANDUS of Altaripa (7th c.)
• VENERIUS of Milan (d. after 406)
• VERANUS of Cavaillon (d. after 589)
• VERANUS of Vence (d. ca. 475)
• VERECUNDUS of Iunca (d. 552)
• VERONA
• VERONICA
• VERSUS DE SEX AETATIBUS ET MUNDI PRINCIPIO
• VERUS ISRAEL
• VERUS of Orange (5th–6th c.)
• VESPASIAN, emperor (AD 9–79)
• VESTIARIUS (Vestararius)
• VESTMENTS, LITURGICAL
• VICTOR (6th c.)
• VICTOR (Vincent), Donatist
• VICTOR I, pope (189?–198?)
• VICTOR of Antioch
• VICTOR of Capua (d. 554)
• VICTOR of Cartenna
• VICTOR of Marseille (d. 287/292)
• VICTOR of Tunnuna (d. after 566)
• VICTOR of Vita (ca. 429–510/512)
• VICTORINUS, poet (5th c.?)
• VICTORINUS of Petovium
• VICTORIUS of Aquitaine (mid-5th c.)
• VICTRICIUS of Rouen (ca. 340–ca. 410)
• VIENNE
• VIGIL
• VIGILANTIUS (4th–5th c.)
• VIGILIUS
• VIGILIUS, pope (537–555)
• VIGILIUS of Thapsus
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