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Achille Silvestrini

Educated in Rome, Silvestrini became a priest in 1946 and after several years continuing his education in Rome via studies of theology, law and Church history, began a very long career in the Vatican Secretariat of State.

Agapius of Hierapolis

He made use of Eusebius's Church History only through an intermediary compilation of short extracts.

Bjarne Skard

He was hired as a headmaster at Stord Teacher's College in 1923 instead of working as a priest, but did study church history.

Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke

Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke (July 3, 1752 – May 2, 1809), German theologian, best known as a writer on church history, was born at Hehlen, Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Heinrich Schrörs

During the following year, with encouragement from Friedrich Althoff (1839–1908), he attained the chair of church history at the University of Bonn.

Musanus

Musanus was an early Christian writer mentioned briefly by Eusebius in his Church History as the author of a book, extant in his time, against the Encratites.

Pietro Locatelli

It includes ornithological, theological, church historical, political, geographical, art historical and mathematical works, and literature on music theory dating back to the 16th century.

Samuel Merrill Woodbridge

He would serve 44 years as a professor of ecclesiastical history and church government at New Brunswick Theological Seminary (from 1857 to 1901) and for seven years as a professor of "Metaphysics and Philosophy of the Human Mind" at Rutgers College (from 1857 to 1864).

After settling in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he taught for 44 years as professor of ecclesiastical history and church government at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and for seven years as professor of "metaphysics and philosophy of the human mind" at Rutgers College (now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) in New Brunswick.


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Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies

Degrees awarded by the Department of Theological-Historical Studies are Master of Arts in Religion (MA-R) with emphases in Theological-Historical Studies; Christian Theology, Church History and Adventist Studies, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Theological-Historical Studies.

Anton Christian Bang

Bang was a professor of church history (1885) and Bishop of Oslo (1896-1912).

Arnold Herbert

He was a son of Professor Thomas Martin Herbert, Professor of Philosophy and Church History at the Lancashire Independent College, whose mother was sister of Ann and Jane Taylor, authors of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Arthur Võõbus

From 1944 to 1948 he worked as a pastor in refugee camps, 1946–1948 he was professor of church history at the Baltic University at Pinneberg, near Hamburg.

Aubrey Gwynn

He wrote on Irish and church history, but also on topics including the West Indies.

Avon Park, Florida

Conrad Henry Moehlman, Baptist author and emeritus professor of church history

BYU College of Religious Education

Church History and Doctrine focuses on courses related to the Doctrine and Covenants, missionary work, the religious history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and LDS Temples.

Canterbury Cathedral

It is rich in church history, older theology, British history (including local history), travel, science and medicine, and the anti-slavery movement.

Carl Fredrik Wisløff

He joined the executive committee of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in 1959, and was appointed as professor of church history at the MF School of Theology in 1961.

Caste system in India

Forrester, Duncan B., 'Indian Christians' Attitudes to Caste in the Twentieth Century,' in Indian Church History Review 9, no. 1 (1975): 3–22.

Forrester, Duncan B., 'Indian Christians' Attitudes to Caste in the Nineteenth Century,' in Indian Church History Review 8, no. 2 (1974): 131–147.

Chad Van Dixhoorn

Van Dixhoorn has lectured at RTS (Reformed Theological Seminary) DC since 2008, where he teaches church history and practical theology.

Christopher Catherwood

He currently teaches students from Connecticut College, Tulane, Villanova, Wake Forest and other American universities in the Cambridge-based INSTEP program, teaching 20th century history and also church history.

Chronicon Paschale

The chief authorities used were: Sextus Julius Africanus; the consular Fasti; the Chronicle and Church History of Eusebius; John Malalas; the Acta Martyrum; the treatise of Epiphanius, bishop of Constantia (the old Salamis) in Cyprus (fl. 4th century), on Weights and Measures.

Cluster Publications

Since 1994, the most important themes of South African life have been reflected in its publication list: contextual biblical hermeneutics, gender issues, HIV and AIDS, oral history, philosophical and ethical issues, significant figures in South African church history, and socio-political issues.

Corriechatachan

Boswell recorded that; “Dr Johnson was much pleased with his entertainment here. There were many good books in the house: Hector Boethius in Latin; Cave's Lives of the Fathers; Baker's Chronicle; Jeremy Collier's Church History; Dr Johnson's small Dictionary; Craufurd's Officers of State, and several more…”

Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture

His work broadened his interest into New Testament studies (particularly the Gospel of Mark) and he never wrote a large-scale church history as he had planned.

Donald Nicholl

In addition to his academic pursuits Donald Nicholl taught church history to the Poor Clares in Aptos, California and to novices in the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa's order, in London.

Enrique R. Falabella

As an area seventy, he was president of the church's Central America Area and is one of only two non-general authorities in church history to preside over an area of the church (the other being C. Scott Grow).

Gillie Potter

Other than comedy, Englishness was the abiding passion for Potter, being an authority on heraldry, genealogy, and church history, a Knight Templar, a member of the Middle Temple and the Society of Genealogists, a vice-president of the Royal Society of St George and the Society of King Charles the Martyr, as well as for many years parish clerk of the church of St Botolph, Aldgate, London.

Heinrich Paulus

He spent time in Bamberg, Nürnberg and Ansbach before becoming professor of exegesis and church history at the University of Heidelberg (1811–44), where he was instrumental in hiring Hegel in 1816.

Henry Clay Vedder

He was an editor at the Examiner from 1876 to 1894, after which he became professor of Church history in Crozer Theological Seminary, Upland, Pennsylvania.

James Charles Wall

He wrote many books, mainly on Church history, and was an early contributor to the Victoria History of the Counties of England magazine.

Johann Baptist Alzog

He defended with ardour the Archbishop of that city, Martin von Dunin, during his persecution by the Prussian government, became vicar-capitular, professor and regens at Hildesheim in 1845, and in 1853 was appointed to the chair of Church History in the University of Freiburg (Breisgau); at the same time he was appointed an ecclesiastical councillor (geistlicher Rat).

Alzog's fame rests mainly on his Handbuch der Universal-Kirchengeschichte (Mainz, 1841, often reprinted under various titles; Eng. trans. by Pabisch and Byrne, A Manual of Church History, 4 vols. Cincinnati, 1874).

John O. Evjen

He was acting professor of church history at the United Church Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota from 1903 until 1905.

John Pryce

John Pryce (1828 – 15 August 1903) was a Welsh clergyman and writer on church history, who became Dean of Bangor Cathedral.

Joseph Annegarn

Joseph Annegarn (b. 13 October 1794, at Ostbevern in Westphalia; d. 8 July 1843, at the Lyceum Hosianum, Braunsberg, East Prussia, where he was professor of church history) was a German Catholic theologian and popular writer.

Karl Josef von Hefele

He was born at Unterkochen in Württemberg, and was educated at Tübingen where in 1839 he became professor-ordinary of Church history and patristics in the Roman Catholic faculty of theology.

Kauko Pirinen

Kauko Antero Pirinen (10 January 1915 in Eno–31 May 1999 in Helsinki), was a Finnish historian, professor in church history at Helsinki University from 1961, and professor in general church history 1963–80.

Levi Silliman Ives

Having become deeply attracted to the Oxford Movement while studying Church history, Ives founded a religious community called the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina.

Mikko Juva

He was professor in Nordic history 1957–1962 at Turku University and professor in Finnish and Scandinavian history and church history at Helsinki University 1962–1978.

Nathaniel H. Felt

In turn this article is largely the same as Fred E. Woods, "Nathaniel H. Felt: An Essex County Man," in Regional Studies In Latter-day Saint Church History in New England, Donald Q. Cannon, Arnold K. Garr and Bruce A. Van Orden, eds.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Two of his brothers attained some distinction: Gilles Boileau, the author of a translation of Epictetus; and Jacques Boileau, who became a canon of the Sainte-Chapelle, and made valuable contributions to church history.

Philip Schaff

His son, David Schley Schaff, was a Presbyterian clergyman and professor of church history.

In 1843, he was called to become Professor of Church History and Biblical Literature in the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, then the only seminary of that church in America.

Pietro Aglieri

Nevertheless, Aglieri started to study church history with La Sapienza University in Rome while in Rebibbia prison.

Sir Henry Puckering, 3rd Baronet

Thomas Fuller dedicated a section of his Church History to Henry, eldest son of Puckering, who died before his father.

Thomas Mar Makarios

Upon returning to India he was appointed a Professor of church history at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kottayam.

Women in a Celtic Church

Joseph F. Kelly of John Caroll University published his review of the work in the Church History journal, publication of the American Society of Church History.