Apostolic Fathers

4th Pope of the Catholic Church

late 1st/early 2nd century Christian author and Patriarch of Antioch

Polycarp (; , Polýkarpos; ; AD 69 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna. According to the Martyrdom of Polycarp, he died a martyr, bound and burned at the stake, then stabbed when the fire failed to consume his body. Polycarp is regarded as a saint and Church Father in the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism.

Greek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis and author (c.60-c.130 AD)

Christian theologians who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, who are believed to have personally known some of the Twelve Apostles, or to have been significantly influenced by them

Christian apologist and saint