De viris illustribus is a collection of short biographies of 135 authors, written in Latin

Latin

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, by the 4th century Latin Church Father Jerome

Jerome

Saint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...

. He completed this work at Bethlehem

Bethlehem

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 in 392-3 CE. The work consists of a prologue plus 135 chapters, each consisting of a brief biography. Jerome himself is the subject of the final chapter. A Greek version of the book, possibly by the same Sophronius who is the subject of Chapter 134, also survives. Many biographies take as their subject figures important in Christian Church history and pay especial attention to their careers as writers. It "was written as an apologetic work to prove that the Church had produced learned men." The book was dedicated to Flavius Dexter, who served as high chamberlain

Chamberlain (office)

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 to Theodosius I

Theodosius I

Theodosius I , also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379 to 395. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire. During his reign, the Goths secured control of Illyricum after the Gothic War, establishing their homeland...

 and as praetorian

Praetorian Guard

The Praetorian Guard was a force of bodyguards used by Roman Emperors. The title was already used during the Roman Republic for the guards of Roman generals, at least since the rise to prominence of the Scipio family around 275 BC...

 prefect to Honorius

Honorius (emperor)

Honorius , was Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423. He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the eastern emperor Arcadius....

. Dexter was the son of Saint Pacianus, who is eulogized in the work.

Contents

Listed below are the subjects of Jerome's 135 biographies. The numbers given are the chapter numbers found in editions.

• 1. Simon Peter
  Saint Peter
  Saint Peter or Simon Peter was an early Christian leader, who is featured prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. The son of John or of Jonah and from the village of Bethsaida in the province of Galilee, his brother Andrew was also an apostle...
  
  
• 2. James the Just
  James the Just
  James , first Bishop of Jerusalem, who died in 62 AD, was an important figure in Early Christianity...
  
  
• 3. Matthew
  Matthew the Evangelist
  Matthew the Evangelist was, according to the Bible, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the four Evangelists.-Identity:...
  
  
• 4. Jude
• 5. Paul
  Paul of Tarsus
  Paul the Apostle , also known as Saul of Tarsus, is described in the Christian New Testament as one of the most influential early Christian missionaries, with the writings ascribed to him by the church forming a considerable portion of the New Testament...
  
  
• 6. Barnabas
  Barnabas
  Barnabas , born Joseph, was an Early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem. In terms of culture and background, he was a Hellenised Jew, specifically a Levite. Named an apostle in , he and Saint Paul undertook missionary journeys together and defended Gentile converts...
  
  
• 7. Luke
  Luke the Evangelist
  Luke the Evangelist was an Early Christian writer whom Church Fathers such as Jerome and Eusebius said was the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles...
  
  
• 8. Mark
  Mark the Evangelist
  Mark the Evangelist is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark. He is one of the Seventy Disciples of Christ, and the founder of the Church of Alexandria, one of the original four main sees of Christianity....
  
  
• 9. John
  John the Evangelist
  Saint John the Evangelist is the conventional name for the author of the Gospel of John...
  
  
• 10. Hermas
  The Shepherd of Hermas
  The Shepherd of Hermas is a Christian literary work of the 1st or 2nd century, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and considered canonical scripture by some of the early Church fathers such as Irenaeus. The Shepherd had great authority in the 2nd and 3rd centuries...
  
  
• 11. Philo the Jew
  Philo
  Philo , known also as Philo of Alexandria , Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew, was a Hellenistic Jewish Biblical philosopher born in Alexandria....
  
  
• 12. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  Seneca the Younger
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero...
  
  
• 13. Josephus
  Josephus
  Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...
  
  
• 14. Justus
  Justus of Tiberias
  Justus of Tiberias was a Jewish author and historian living in the second half of the 1st century AD. Little is known about his life, except as told by his political and literary enemy Josephus Flavius....
  
  
• 15. Clement
  Pope Clement I
  Starting in the 3rd and 4th century, tradition has identified him as the Clement that Paul mentioned in Philippians as a fellow laborer in Christ.While in the mid-19th century it was customary to identify him as a freedman of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor...
  
  
• 16. Ignatius of Antioch
  Ignatius of Antioch
  Ignatius of Antioch was among the Apostolic Fathers, was the third Bishop of Antioch, and was a student of John the Apostle. En route to his martyrdom in Rome, Ignatius wrote a series of letters which have been preserved as an example of very early Christian theology...
  
  
• 17. Polycarp
  Polycarp
  Saint Polycarp was a 2nd century 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 touch him...
  
  
• 18. Papias
  Papias
  Papias was a bishop of the early Church, canonized as a saint. Eusebius of Caesarea calls him "Bishop of Hierapolis" which is 22 km from Laodicea and near Colossae Papias (writing in the first third of the 2nd century) was a bishop of the early Church, canonized as a saint. Eusebius of...
  
  
• 19. Quadratus
  Quadratus of Athens
  Saint Quadratus of Athens is said to have been the first of the Christian apologists. He is said by Eusebius of Caesarea to have been a disciple of the Apostles...
  
  
• 20. Aristides
  Aristides the Athenian
  Aristides the Athenian was a 2nd century Greek Christian author who is primarily known as the author of the Apology of Aristides. His feast day is August 31 in Roman Catholicism.-Life:...
  
  
• 21. Agrippa
  Agrippa Castor
  Agrippa Castor has been identified as "the earliest recorded writer against heresy, and apparently the only one who composed a book solely devoted to the refutation of Basilides". Little is known of him besides second-hand passing in ancient historical references.Agrippa Castor was known by both...
  
  
• 22. Hegesippus
  Hegesippus (chronicler)
  Saint Hegesippus , was a Christian chronicler of the early Church who may have been a Jewish convert and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion...
  
  
• 23. Justin
  Justin Martyr
  Justin Martyr, also known as just Saint Justin , was an early Christian apologist. Most of his works are lost, but two apologies and a dialogue survive. He is considered a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church....
  
  
• 24. Melito of Asia
  Melito of Sardis
  Melito of Sardis was the bishop of Sardis near Smyrna in western Anatolia, and a great authority in Early Christianity: Jerome, speaking of the Old Testament canon established by Melito, quotes Tertullian to the effect that he was esteemed a prophet by many of the faithful...
  
  
• 25. Theophilus
  Theophilus of Antioch
  Theophilus, Patriarch of Antioch, succeeded Eros c. 169, and was succeeded by Maximus I c.183, according to Henry Fynes Clinton, but these dates are only approximations...
  
  
• 26. Apollinaris
  Apollinaris Claudius
  Saint Apollinaris Claudius, otherwise Apollinaris of Hierapolis or Apollinaris the Apologist, was a Christian leader and writer of the 2nd century.-Life:...
  
  
• 27. Dionysius of Corinth
• 28. Pinytus of Crete
  Pinytus
  Saint Pinytus born in Greece, was Bishop of Cnossus, Crete in the late 2nd century. Not much is known about his life but it is known that Pinytus was looked up to by St. Eusebius of Caesarea, who said that he was one of the foremost ecclesiastical writers of his time. Pinytus was in constant...
  
  
• 29. Tatian
  Tatian
  Tatian the Assyrian was an Assyrian early Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.Tatian's most influential work is the Diatessaron, a Biblical paraphrase, or "harmony", of the four gospels that became the standard text of the four gospels in the Syriac-speaking churches until the...
  
  
• 30. Philip of Crete
  Philip of Gortyna
  Saint Philip of Gortyna was Bishop of Gortyna on Crete. Little is known about him except for his authorship of a now lost treatise against the Gnostics. An Early Christian Apologist, he wrote in the time of Marcus Aurelius against Marcion...
  
  
• 31. Musanus
  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. Jerome, probably based on Eusebius, also wrote about him in De Viris Illustribus ....
  
  
• 32. Modestus
  Modestus
  Modestus was an early christian writer mentioned briefly by Eusebius in his | as the author of a book against the Marcion. Eusebius praises him as having "exposed the error of the man more clearly than the rest to the view of all"....
  
  
• 33. Bardesanes of Mesopotamia
• 34. Victor
  Pope Victor I
  Pope Saint Victor I was Pope from 189 to 199 .Pope Victor I was the first bishop of Rome born in the Roman Province of Africa: probably he was born in Leptis Magna . He was later canonized...
  
  

• 35. Irenaeus
  Irenaeus
  Saint Irenaeus , was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire . He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology...
  
  
• 36. Pantaenus
  Pantaenus
  Saint Pantaenus was a Christian theologian who founded the Catechetical School of Alexandria about AD 190. This school was the earliest catechetical school, and became influential in the development of Christian theology....
  
  
• 37. Rhodo
  Rhodo
  Rhodo was a Christian writer who flourished in the time of the Roman emperor Commodus ; he was a native of the province of Asia Minor who came to Rome where he was a pupil of Tatian....
  
  
• 38. Clemens
  Clement of Alexandria
  Titus Flavius Clemens , known as Clement of Alexandria , was a Christian theologian and the head of the noted Catechetical School of Alexandria. Clement is best remembered as the teacher of Origen...
  
  
• 39. Miltiades
  Pope Miltiades
  Pope Saint Miltiades, also called Melchiades , was pope from 2 July 311 to 10 January 314.- Origins :He appears to have been a Berber African by birth, but of his personal history nothing is known.- Pontificate :...
  
  
• 40. Apollonius
• 41. Serapion
  Serapion of Antioch
  Serapion was Patriarch of Antioch . He is known primarily through his theological writings. Eusebius refers to three works of Serapion in his history, but admits that others probably existed: first is a private letter addressed to Caricus and Pontius against Montanism, from which Eusebius quotes an...
  
  
• 42. Apollonius
  Apollonius of Ephesus
  Apollonius of Ephesus was an anti-Montanist Greek ecclesiastical writer, probably from Asia Minor.He was thoroughly acquainted with the Christian history of Ephesus and the doings of the Phrygian Montanists. The unknown author of Praedestinatus says he was a Bishop of Ephesus. However, the lack of...
  
  
• 43. Theophilus
  Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea
  Saint Theophilus was bishop of Caesarea Palaestina. He is known for his opposition to the Quartodecimans. He is commemorated on 5 March.-External links:**...
  
  
• 44. Bacchylus
  Bacchylus
  Bacchylus was a second century Bishop of Corinth who was known for supporting Papal claims, and writings on the passover....
  
  
• 45. Polycrates
  Polycrates of Ephesus
  Polycrates of Ephesus was an Early Christian bishop who resided in Ephesus.Roberts and Donaldson noted that Polycrates "belonged to a family in which he was the eighth Christian bishop; and he presided over the church of Ephesus, in which the traditions of St. John were yet fresh in men's minds at...
  
  
• 46. Heraclitus
• 47. Maximus
• 48. Candidus
  Saint Candidus
  Saint Candidus was, according to legend, a commander of the Theban Legion. The Golden Legend states: "And the noble man, Maurice, was duke of this holy legion; and they that governed under him, which bare the banners, were named Saint Candidus, Saint Innocent, Saint Exsuperius, Saint Victor, and...
  
  
• 49. Appion
• 50. Sextus
• 51. Arabianus
• 52. Judas
• 53. Tertullian
  Tertullian
  Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian , was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and...
  
  
• 54. Origen
  Origen
  Origen , or Origen Adamantius, 184/5–253/4, was an early Christian Alexandrian scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished writers of the early Church. As early as the fourth century, his orthodoxy was suspect, in part because he believed in the pre-existence of souls...
  
  
• 55. Ammonius
  Ammonius Saccas
  Ammonius Saccas was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism. He is mainly known as the teacher of Plotinus, whom he taught for eleven years from 232 to 243. He was undoubtably the biggest influence on Plotinus in his development of...
  
  
• 56. Ambrose
  Ambrose of Alexandria
  Ambrose of Alexandria was a friend of the Christian theologian Origen. Ambrose was attracted by Origen's fame as a teacher, and visited the Catechetical School of Alexandria in 212. At first a gnostic Valentinian and Marcionist, Ambrose, through Origen's teaching, eventually rejected this...
  
  
• 57. Trypho
• 58. Minucius Felix
• 59. Gaius
• 60. Beryllus
• 61. Hippolytus
• 62. Alexander of Cappadocia
• 63. Julius Africanus
  Sextus Julius Africanus
  Sextus Julius Africanus was a Christian traveller and historian of the late 2nd and early 3rd century AD. He is important chiefly because of his influence on Eusebius, on all the later writers of Church history among the Fathers, and on the whole Greek school of chroniclers.His name indicates that...
  
  
• 64. Geminus
• 65. Theodorus (Gregory of Neocaesarea)
  Gregory Thaumaturgus
  Gregory Thaumaturgus, also known as Gregory of Neocaesarea or Gregory the Wonderworker, was a Christian bishop of the 3rd century.-Biography:Gregory was born at Neo-Caesarea around 213 A.D...
  
  
• 66. Cornelius
  Pope Cornelius
  Pope Saint Cornelius was pope from his election on 6 or 13 March 251 to his martyrdom in June 253.- Christian persecution :Emperor Decius, who ruled from 249 to 251 AD, persecuted Christians in the Roman Empire rather sporadically and locally, but starting January in the year 250, he ordered all...
  
  
• 67. Cyprian of Africa
  Cyprian
  Cyprian was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education...
  
  
• 68. Pontius
  Pontius of Carthage
  Pontius, or Pontius the Deacon, was a Christian saint and Latin author from Carthage. He served as a deacon under Cyprian of Carthage and wrote the Vita Cypriani shortly after his death.-Life:...
  
  

• 69. Dionysius of Alexandria
  Dionysius of Alexandria
  Pope Dionysius of Alexandria, named "the Great," was the Pope of Alexandria from 248 until his death on November 17, 265 after seventeen years as a bishop. He was the first Pope to hold the title "the Great" . We have information on Dionysius because during his lifetime, Dionysius wrote many...
  
  
• 70. Novatianus
• 71. Malchion
  Malchion
  Malchion, a Church Father and presbyter of Antioch during the reigns of Emperors Claudius II and Aurelian, was a well-known rhetorician most notable for his key role in the 272 deposition of the heretical bishop of Antioch, Paul of Samosata. He was very familiar with and frequently quoted pagan...
  
  
• 72. Archelaus
• 73. Anatolius of Alexandria
• 74. Victorinus
• 75. Pamphilus the Presbyter
  Pamphilus of Caesarea
  Saint Pamphilus , was a presbyter of Caesarea and chief among Catholic Biblical scholars of his generation...
  
  
• 76. Pierius
  Pierius
  Pierius was a Christian priest and probably head of the catechetical school of Alexandria, conjointly with Achillas. He flourished while Theonas was bishop of Alexandria, and died at Rome after 309. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 4 November....
  
  
• 77. Lucianus
  Lucian of Antioch
  Saint Lucian of Antioch , known as Lucian the Martyr, was a Christian presbyter, theologian and martyr. He was noted for both his scholarship and ascetic piety.-History:...
  
  
• 78. Phileas
• 79. Arnobius
  Arnobius
  Arnobius of Sicca was an Early Christian apologist, during the reign of Diocletian . According to Jerome's Chronicle, Arnobius, before his conversion, was a distinguished Numidian rhetorician at Sicca Veneria , a major Christian center in Proconsular Africa, and owed his conversion to a...
  
  
• 80. Firmianus (Lactantius)
  Lactantius
  Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian author who became an advisor to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I, guiding his religious policy as it developed, and tutor to his son.-Biography:...
  
  
• 81. Eusebius of Caesarea
  Eusebius of Caesarea
  Eusebius of Caesarea also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon...
  
  
• 82. Reticius
  Reticius
  Saint Reticius was a bishop of Autun, the first one known to history, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia...
  
  
• 83. Methodius
  Methodius of Olympus
  The Church Father and Saint Methodius of Olympus was a Christian bishop, ecclesiastical author, and martyr.-Life:Few reports have survived on the life of this first scientific opponent of Origen; even these short accounts present many difficulties. Eusebius does not mention him in his Church...
  
  
• 84. Juvencus
  Juvencus
  Gaius Vettius Aquilinus Juvencus, known as Juvencus or Juvenk, was a Roman Spanish Christian and composer of Latin poetry in the 4th century.-Life:...
  
  
• 85. Eustathius
  Eustathius of Antioch
  Eustathius of Antioch, sometimes surnamed the Great, was a bishop and patriarch of Antioch in the 4th century.He was a native of Side in Pamphylia. About 320 he was bishop of Beroea, and he became patriarch of Antioch shortly before the Council of Nicaea in 325...
  
  
• 86. Marcellus
  Marcellus of Ancyra
  Marcellus of Ancyra was one of the bishops present at the Councils of Ancyra and of Nicaea. He was a strong opponent of Arianism, but was accused of adopting the opposite extreme of modified Sabellianism...
  
  
• 87. Athanasius
• 88. Anthony
  Anthony the Great
  Anthony the Great or Antony the Great , , also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Abba Antonius , and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers...
  
  
• 89. Basil of Ancyra
  Basil of Ancyra
  Basil of Ancyra, was a Christian priest in Ancyra, Galatia during the fourth century. Very meager information about his life is preserved in a metaphrastic work: “Life and Deeds of the Martyred Priest Basil.” He fought against the pagans and the Arians...
  
  
• 90. Theodorus
  Theodore Stratelates
  Theodore Stratelates , also known as Theodore of Heraclea, is a martyr and Warrior Saint venerated with the title Great-martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches....
  
  
• 91. Eusebius of Emesa
  Eusebius of Emesa
  Eusebius of Emesa was a learned ecclesiastic of the Greek church, and a pupil of Eusebius of Caesarea....
  
  
• 92. Triphylius
• 93. Donatus
  Donatus
  -People:* Aelius Donatus, a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric* Donatus , a Khan of the Eastern Black Sea Huns & beyond c. 412 AD; preceded by Uldin and succeeded by Charaton-Churchmen:...
  
  
• 94. Asterius
  Asterius the Sophist
  Asterius the Sophist was an Arian Christian theologian from Cappadocia. Few of his writings have been recovered in their entirety . He is said to have been a pupil of Lucian of Antioch, but it is unclear to what extent this was the case...
  
  
• 95. Lucifer of Cagliari
• 96. Eusebius of Sardinia
  Eusebius of Vercelli
  Eusebius of Vercelli was a bishop and saint in Italy. Along with Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity of Jesus against Arianism.-Biography:...
  
  
• 97. Fortunatianus
• 98. Acacius
  Acacius of Caesarea
  Acacius of Caesarea in Greek Ἀκάκιος Mονόφθαλμος was a Christian bishop, the pupil and successor in the Palestinian see of Caesarea of Eusebius AD 340, whose life he wrote. He is remembered chiefly for his bitter opposition to St. Cyril of Jerusalem and for the part he was afterwards enabled to...
  
  
• 99. Serapion
• 100. Hilary
  Hilary of Poitiers
  Hilary of Poitiers was Bishop of Poitiers and is a Doctor of the Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "Hammer of the Arians" and the "Athanasius of the West." His name comes from the Latin word for happy or cheerful. His optional memorial in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints is 13...
  
  
• 101. Victorinus
• 102. Titus
  Titus of Bostra
  Titus of Bostra was a Christian theologian and bishop. Sozomen names Titus among the great men of the time of Constantius.-Life:...
  
  

• 103. Damasus
  Pope Damasus I
  Pope Saint Damasus I was the bishop of Rome from 366 to 384.He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha , in what is present-day Portugal, then part of the Western Roman Empire...
  
  
• 104. Apollinaris
  Apollinaris of Laodicea
  Apollinaris "the Younger" was a bishop of Laodicea in Syria. He collaborated with his father Apollinaris the Elder in reproducing the Old Testament in the form of Homeric and Pindaric poetry, and the New Testament after the fashion of Platonic dialogues, when the emperor Julian had forbidden...
  
  
• 105. Gregory of Elvira
  Gregory of Elvira
  Gregory Bæticus was bishop of Elvira, in the province of Baetica, Spain, from which he derived his surname.-Life:Gregory is first met with as Bishop of Elvira in 375; he is mentioned in the Luciferian "Libellus precum ad Imperatores" as the defender of the Nicean creed, after Bishop Hosius of...
  
  
• 106. Pacianus
• 107. Photinus
  Photinus
  Photinus was a Christian heresiarch and bishop of Sirmium in Pannonia, best known for denying the incarnation of Christ. His name became synonymous in later literature for someone asserting that Christ was not God.- Life :...
  
  
• 108. Phoebadius
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Agen
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Agen is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic diocese in France.The diocese comprises the Département of Lot and Garonne, in the Region of Aquitaine...
  
  
• 109. Didymus
  Didymus the Blind
  Didymus the Blind was a Coptic Church theologian of Alexandria, whose famous Catechetical School he led for about half a century. He became blind at a very young age, and therefore ignorant of the rudiments of learning...
  
  
• 110. Optatus
  Saint Optatus
  Saint Optatus, sometimes anglicized as St. Optate, was Bishop of Milevis, in Numidia, in the fourth century, remembered for his writings against Donatism.-Biography and context:Optatus was a convert, as we gather from St...
  
  
• 111. Acilius Severus
• 112. Cyril of Jerusalem
  Cyril of Jerusalem
  Cyril of Jerusalem was a distinguished theologian of the early Church . He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. In 1883, Cyril was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII...
  
  
• 113. Euzoius
• 114. Epiphanius
  Epiphanius of Salamis
  Epiphanius of Salamis was bishop of Salamis at the end of the 4th century. He is considered a saint and a Church Father by both the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. He gained a reputation as a strong defender of orthodoxy...
  
  
• 115. Ephraim
  Ephrem the Syrian
  Ephrem the Syrian was a Syriac and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. He is venerated by Christians throughout the world, and especially in the Syriac Orthodox Church, as a saint.Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as...
  
  
• 116. Basil of Caesarea
  Basil of Caesarea
  Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was the bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor . He was an influential 4th century Christian theologian...
  
  
• 117. Gregory of Nazianzen
• 118. Lucius
• 119. Diodorus
  Diodorus of Tarsus
  Diodore of Tarsus was a Christian bishop, a monastic reformer, and a theologian. A strong supporter of the orthodoxy of Nicaea, Diodore played a pivotal role in the Council of Constantinople and opposed the anti-Christian policies of Julian the Apostate...
  
  
• 120. Eunomius
• 121. Priscillianus
• 122. Latronianus
  Latronianus
  Latronianus was a poet and scholar of Hispania who was associated with Priscillianism. He was executed, along with Priscillian and several others, at Trier in 385...
  
  
• 123. Tiberianus
• 124. Ambrose of Milan
• 125. Evagrius
  Evagrius of Antioch
  Evagrius of Antioch was a claimant to the See of Antioch from 388 to 392. He succeeded Paulinus and had the support of the Eustathian party, and was a rival to Flavian during the so-called Meletian schism.- History :...
  
  
• 126. Ambrose, disciple of Didymus
• 127. Maximus
• 128. Gregory of Nyssa
  Gregory of Nyssa
  St. Gregory of Nyssa was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory of Nazianzus. His significance has long been recognized in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic branches of Christianity...
  
  
• 129. John of Antioch
  John of Antioch
  John of Antioch was Patriarch of Antioch and led a group of moderate Eastern bishops during the Nestorian controversy. He is sometimes confused with John Chrysostom, who is occasionally also referred to as John of Antioch. John gave active support to his friend Nestorius in the latter's dispute...
  
  
• 130. Gelasius
  Gelasius of Caesarea
  Gelasius of Caesarea was bishop of Caesarea Maritima from 367 to 373 and from 379 to his death. He was also an author, though none of his work survives.Gelasius participated in the First Council of Constantinople in 381...
  
  
• 131. Theotimus
• 132. Dexter
• 133. Amphilochius
  Amphilochius of Iconium
  Amphilochius of Iconium was a Christian bishop of the fourth century, son of a Cappadocian family of distinction, b. perhaps at Caesarea, ca. 339 or 340; d. probably some time between 394 and 403...
  
  
• 134. Sophronius
• 135. Jerome
  Jerome
  Saint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...
  
  

Jerome's account of his own literary career

At the conclusion of De Viris Illustribus, Jerome provided his own biography as the latest example of the scholarly work of Christians. In Chapter 135, Jerome summarized his career to date:

Other text and translations

• Jerome's De Viris Illustribus: Latin text (includes an informative introduction, in Latin)
• Jerome's De Viris Illustribus: Greek version

External links

• Jerome's De Viris Illustribus of Matthew, Mark, Luke
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Gennadius of Marseilles (continuator of Jerome's De viris illustribus)