A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE Ecclesiastical Authors That are Mentioned in this Volume.

With the Names of the Authors, their Country, and Employments, Time of their Birth, Time when then Flourished, and Time of their Deaths.

• HERMAS, a Greek Author; the same Person probably that St. Paul salutes in his Epistle to the Romans; which was written in the Year 57. Neronis 4to.
• St. CLEMENT, Bishop of Rome, by birth a Greek, contemporary with the Apostles, he governed that Church from the Year 93, to the Year 101, under the Emperors Domitian, Nerva, Trajan; died in the Year 101, the third year of Trajan.
• DENYS, believed to have been originally of Thrace, Judge of the Areopagus at Athens, and afterwards Bishop of that Church, converted by St. Paul in the Year 52. constituted Bishop of that Church to∣wards the Year 60; he governed it till the Year 95, under the Emperors Nero, Vespasian, and Domi∣tian; died in the Year 95. in Domitian's Persecu∣tion.
• St. IGNATIUS, called Theophorus, of Asia, Bishop of Antioch. Some say he was about seven years old when Jesus Christ preached: Some say he was not born till after Jesus Christ's Death. He succeeded Evodius in the See of Antioch in the Year 70 of Je∣sus Christ, and governed that Church forty years under Vespasian and his Successors, till Trajan's time, under whom he suffered Martyrdom; died in the tenth Year of Trajan, in the Year 107.
• St. POLYCARP, of Asia, Bishop of Smyrna, born about the Year 70, Consecrated to the Service of God in the Year 81. Consecrated about the Year 98. He governed the Church of Smyrna till the Year 167, from the time of Nerva to Com∣modus; suffered Martyrdom in the Year 167.
• PAPIAS, of Asia, Bishop of Hierapolis, Disciple of St. John the Evangelist; he flourished under the Emperors Trajan and Hadrian. The year of his death is not known.
• QUADRATUS, of Asia, Disciple of the Apo∣les, flourished under Hadrian, to whom he present∣ed an Apology for the Christians about the Year 120.
• ARISTIDES, a Philosopher of Athens, present∣ed an Apology to the same Emperor about the same time.
• AGRIPPA, a Greek Author, flourished at the same time.
• HEGESIPPUS, of Palaestine, born soon after the Apostles deaths, about the beginning of the Se∣cond Century, flourished under the Antonines, and wrote his History under Pope Eleutherius; he died under the Emperor Commodus, about the Year 180.
• St. JUSTIN, a Philosopher, born at Sichem, a Ci∣ty in Palaestine, a Greek by Birth and Religion; flourished under Antoninus Pius, to whom he pre∣sented an Apology about the Year 150. died in the Year 166.
• MELITO, of Asia, Bishop of Sardis, flourished un∣der M. Aurelius the Philosopher, to whom he pre∣sented an Apology for the Christians in the Year 182. died about the Year 185.
• TATIAN, an Assyrian, flourished under M. Aurelius, and Commodus.
• ATHENAGORAS, an Athenian Philosopher, flou∣rished at the same time, and presented an Apology to M. Aurelius.
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• ... HERMIAS, a Greek Author. Time when he li∣ved uncertain.
• THEOPHILUS, a Greek Author, Bishop of Antioch. Consecrated Bishop of Antioch in the Year 170. governed that Church till the Year 181 or 182, under M. Aurelius, and the first years of Com∣modus. Died in the Year 182.
• APOLLINARIS, a Greek, Bishop of Hierapo∣lis, a City in Phrygia, flourished under the Emperor M. Aurelius; died about the beginning of Commo∣dus's Reign, in the Year 182 or 18••.
• DIONYSIUS, Bishop of Corinth, flourished un∣der the Emperors M. Aurelius and Commodus. Died in the latter End of Commodus's, or the beginning of Severus's Reign.
• • PINYTUS, a Bishop in Crete.
  • PHILIP, a Bishop in the same Island.
  • MODESTUS, a Greek.
  • MUSANUS, a Greek.
  • BARDESANES, a Syrian of Edessa.
  These five flourished under the Emperors M. Au∣relius Antonius the Philosopher, and Commo∣dus.
• St. IRENAEUS, a Greek, went into Gaul, was ordained Priest, and afterwards Bishop of Lyons, born about the Year 140. Disciple of St. Polycarp and Papias, Consecrated in the Year 178. in the 17th year of the Reign of M. Aurelius, under whom, and his Successors, Pertinax and Severus he flourish∣ed in the time of Eleutherius and Victor, Bishops of Rome. Suffered Martyrdom in the Year 202 or 203.
• VICTOR, Bishop of Rome, Consecrated Bishop of that Church in the Year 191, died in the Year 201.
• POLYCRATES, of Asia Bishop of Ephesus, lived at the same time.
• THEOPHILUS, of Palaestine; Bishop of Caesarea, and
• BACHILLUS, Bishop of Corinth, lived at the same time.
• The two APOLLONII, one a Greek, the other a Roman Senator, flourished under Commodus.
• Two ANONYMOUS Greek Authors, who wrote against the Heresies of Montanus and Artemo, at the same time.
• ... HERACLITUS,
• ... MAXIMUS,
• ... APPION,
• ... CANDIDUS,
• ... SEXTUS,
• ... ARABIANUS,
• JUDAS, and several others, whose Country is not known, flourished under Commodus, Pertinax, and Severus.
• SERAPION, Bishop of Antioch, chosen in the Year 191. governed that Church under the Empe∣rors Commodus, Pertinax, Severus, and Caracalla. Died in the Year 213. about the end of the first year of Caracalla.
• RHODON, of Asia, studied at Rome, under the Em∣perors Commodus and Severus.
• PANTAENUS, a Stoick Philosopher, born in Si∣cily, Catechist of Alexandria, President of the A∣lexandrian School towards the beginning of Com∣modus's Reign, about the Year 184. He went then into the Indies to preach the Gospel, and upon his return resumed his Employment under the Empe∣rors Severus and Caracalla. Died about the Year 212. under the Emperor Caracalla.
• St. CLEMENT, believed to have been of Athens, Presbyter and Catechist of Alexandria, flourished under the Emperors Severus, Caracalla, and Helio∣gabalus, from the Year 196. to the Year 220. Died in the Year 220.
• MILTIADES, a Greek, flourished under Com∣modus and Severus.
• TERTULLIAN, originally of Africa, a Car∣thaginian, Presbyter of that Church, a Latin Writer, flourished under the Emperors Severus and Caracalla, from the Year 194. till towards the Year 216. He turned Montanist in the Year 207. Died about the Year 220.
• CAIUS, Presbyter of Rome, flourished under Seve∣rus and Caracalla, under the Popes Victor and Zephy∣rinus, from the Year 196. to the Year 201.
• HIPPOLYTUS, Bishop of Ostia in Italy, or ra∣ther of a City in Arabia; suffered Martyrdom in the Year 230.
• GEMINIANUS, or
• GEMINUS, under the same Emperor.
• ALEXANDER, Bishop in Cappadocia, afterwards of Jerusalem, taken in as Coadjutor to Narcissus Bishop of Jerusalem, in the beginning of Caracalla's Reign, about the Year 213. Died in the Year 250.
• JULIUS AFRICANUS, of Palaestine, flourished under the Emperor Heliogabalus and A∣lexander Severus, from the Year 218, till about the Year 230.
• MINUTIUS FELIX, a Lawyer of Rome, flourished towards the beginning of the third Cen∣tury.
• AMMONIUS, a Philosopher of Alexandria, flou∣rished under the Emperor Severus.
• ORIGEN, an Alexandrian, Catechist of that School, afterwards Presbyter, born about the Year 185. settled Catechist about the Year 203, and flourished till the Year 252. died in the Year 252.
• BERYLLUS, Bishop of Bostra in Arabia. Con∣verted by Origen, under the Emperor Gordian in the Year 238.
• St. CYPRIAN, an African, Bishop of Carthage, Converted by Caecilius in the Year 246. governed the Church of Carthage from the Year 248. to the Year 258. under the Emperors Philip, Decius, Gallus, Volusian and Valerian. Suffered Martyrdom in the Year 258.
• PONTIUS, of Africa, Disciple of St. Cyprian, un∣der Volusian.
• CORNELIUS, Bishop of Rome, Consecrated in the Year 251.
• NOVATIAN, a Roman, flourished under the Emperor Philip; created Anti-Pope in 251. and wrote in 253.
• St. MARTIALIS, a Greek, came to Tholouse in the Year 250.
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• ... SIXTUS, Bishop of Rome, chosen Bishop in the Year 254.
• GREGORY THAUMATURGUS, born at Neocaesarea, a City in Pontus, of a Noble Family; afterwards Bishop of that City. Born about the Year 215. Converted by Origen, whose Disciple he was. Chosen Bishop in the Year 240. flourished under the Emperors Gordian, Philip, Gallus, Volusian, Decius, Valerian and Gallienus, for 25 years. Died in the Year 265.
• DIONYSIUS, Disciple of Origen, Catechist, and Bishop of Alexandria, chosen Bishop in the Year 247. flourished under the same Emperors for seven∣teen years.
• THEOGNOSTUS, of Alexandria. Time un∣certain.
• ATHENOGENES. Time uncertain.
• DIONYSIUS, Bishop of Rome, governed that Church from the Year 258. to the Year 270.
• MALCHION, Presbyter of Antioch, disputed against Paulus Samosatenus in the Year 270.
• ARCHELAUS, a Syrian, Bishop in Mesopotamia, flourished under the Emperor Probus towards the Year 280.
• ANATOLIUS, of Alexandria, Bishop of Laodi∣cea in Syria, under the same Emperor, and his Suc∣cessor Carus.
• VICTORINUS, Bishop of Passaw, at the same time.
• PIERIUS, Presbyter, and Catechist of Alexan∣dria, under Carus and Dioclesian, about the Year 285.
• METHODIUS, Bishop in Lycia, afterwards of Tyre in Palaestine, under the same Emperors; suf∣fered Martyrdom in 302 or 303.
• PAMPHILUS, Presbyter of Caesarea in Palaestine, suffered Martyrdom under Maximinus.
• LUCIAN, Presbyter of Antioch, died under the same Emperor.
• PHILEAS, of Thmuis, a City of Aegypt, died under the same Emperor.
• ZENO, Bishop of Verona, died in Julian the Apo∣state's time.
• ARNOBIUS, an African, Professor of Rhetorick at Sicca a City in Numidia, flourished under Dio∣clesian towards the end of the third, and beginning of the fourth Centuries.
• L. CAECILIUS FIRMIANUS, sirnamed LACTANTIUS, according to some, an Italian to others an African, studied in Africa, afterwards went to Nicomedia, where he taught Rhetorick, and at last Tutor to Crispus. He wrote in Latin; flou∣rished under Dioclesian and Constantine, from the Year 302. till towards the Year 330.
• COMMODIANUS, a Latin Author, probably an Italian, in the time of Pope Sylvester.
• JULIUS FIRMICUS MATERNUS, a Latin Author, Bishop of Milain, according to Baronius, under Constantius and Constantine, Sons of Constantine the Great. He wrote about 340 or 350.