Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies.

Showing 97 terms beginning with A.

• Abercius, bp. of Hierapolis
• Abgar
• Acacius, bp. of Caesarea
• Acacius, bp. of Beroea
• Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople
• Acephali
• Adamantius (1)
• Aerius, founder of the heretical sect of the Aerians
• Aetius, an Arian sect founder and head
• Africanus, Julius
• Agapetus, bp. of Rome
• Agatha
• Agnes
• Agnoëtae
• Alaric
• Albanus
• Albion
• Alexander, of Alexandria
• Alexander, of Byzantium
• Alexander, of Hierapolis Euphratensis
• Alexander, bp. of Jerusalem
• Alexander I., bp. of Rome
• Alogians, or Alogi
• Ambrosiaster, or Pseudo-Ambrosius
• Ambrosius of Alexandria
• Ambrosius of Greece
• Ambrosius of Milan
• Ammon (Amon), St
• Ammonius
• Ammonius Saccas
• Amphilochius, archbishop of Iconium
• Amphilochius, bp. of Sida
• Anastasia
• Anastasius, a presbyter of Antioch
• Anastasius I., bp. of Rome
• Anastasius II, bp. of Rome
• Anastasius Sinaita
• Anatolius, bp. of Constantiople
• Anatolius, bp. of Laodicea in Syria Prima
• Ancyra, Seven Martyrs of
• Andreas of Caesarea
• Andreas Samosatensis of Samosata
• Anicetus, bp. of Rome
• Anomoeans
• Anonomastus
• Anthimus, bp. of Tyana
• Anthropolatrae
• Anthropomorphitae

• Antidikomarianitae
• Antiochus, bp. of Ptolemais
• Antipopes
• Antoninus, Pius, emperor
• Antonius
• Aphraat (Aphrahat, Farhad)
• Aphthartodocetae, a sect of Monophysites
• Apion
• Apolinaris, or Apolinarius Claudius
• Apollinarianism, Apollinarians, Apollinarists
• Apollinaris, St. and Mart
• Apollinaris the Elder, of Alexandria
• Apollinaris the Younger, bp. of Laodicea
• Apollonius, M
• Apollonius of Ephesus
• Apollonius of Tyana
• Apostolic Fathers
• Apostolici
• Apphianus, or Appianus, or Amphianus, M
• Aquila
• Archelaus, supposed bishop of Carchar
• Arethas, bp. of Caesarea in Cappadocia, and Andreas, an earlier archbp. of the same see
• Arinthaeus, a general under Valens
• Aristides, of Athens
• Aristion
• Aristo Pellaeus
• Arius, the heresiarch
• Arius, Followers of
• Arnobius
• Arnobius, Junior
• Arsacius
• Arsenius
• Artemon, Artemonites
• Asterius, a bishop of Arabia
• Asterius, bp. of Amasea
• Athanasius, archbishop of Alexandria
• Athanius, bp. of Anagastus
• Athanasius, bp. of Scythopolis
• Athanasius, bp. of Perrha
• Athanasius, bp. of Ancyra
• Athenagoras
• Atticus, archbp. of Constantinople
• Attila, king and general of the Huns
• Augustinus, Aurelius
• Augustinus, archbp. of Canterbury
• Aurelian, Roman emperor
• Aurelius, Marcus, Roman emperor
• Ausonius, Decimus Magnus, poet
• Avitus, Alcimus Ecdicius, archbishop of Vienne