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Who are the great people in defending the Church against heresies?
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Heresy has been around since the founding of the Church by Jesus Christ. In the Acts of the Apostles Simon Magus, often considered as the first of the Gnostics, is identified as being a reprobate of the Faith. St. Paul and other New Testament writers frequently warn against those twisting scriptures, traditions and beliefs to their own ways. In the beginning, St. Paul is one of the first defenders of the Faith in the written word, trying to reinforce the Christian doctrine already laid down in the fledging areas of the Church. Justin Martyr, Pope Clement I, Polycarp, Iraeneus of Lyons were all early defenders who wrote treatises specifically against Gnosticism and other smaller strains and Origen and Tertullian must also be credited before they themselves fell into heresy. All the early popes were charged with the defense of the Church and for the first four centuries very few were not martyred or exiled as a result. When Arianism gripped the Church it was Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria who rose to its defense until the tides definitively turned against the prevalent heresy at the council of Nicaea. Those who have been recognized by the Church as Her most dedicated and erudite defenders have been designated by the title of "doctor". These doctors here follow(there are 33 in all):
Western Early Church Doctors (the original four doctors)
St. Ambrose, 340-397 (Pastoral Doctor)
St. Jerome, 345-420 (Doctor of the Bible)
St. Augustine, 354-430 (Doctor of Grace)
St. Gregory the Great, 540-604 (Doctor of Hymnology)
Eastern Early Church Doctors
St. Athanasius, 295-373 (Doctor of Orthodoxy)
St. Basil the Great, 330-379 (Doctor of Monasticism)
St. Gregory Nazianzus, 330-390 (Doctor of Theologians)
St. John Chrysostom, 345-407 (Doctor of Preachers)
Other Early Church Doctors
St. Ephraem, 306-373 (Doctor of Deacons and Poets)
St. Hilary, 315-368 (Doctor of Christ's Divinity)
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, 315-387 (Doctor of Faith and against Heresy)
St. Cyril of Alexandria, 376-444 (Doctor of the Incarnation)
St. Leo the Great, 390-461 (Doctor of Doctrine)
St. Peter Chrysologus, 400-450 (Doctor of Homilies)
St. Isidore, 560-636 (Doctor of Education)
St. Bede, the Venerable, 673-735 (Doctor of English History)
St. John Damascene, 676-749 (The Icon or Image Doctor)
St. Peter Damian, 1007-1072 (Doctor of Reform and Renewal)
Church Doctors of the Middle Ages
St. Anselm, 1033-1109 (Doctor of Scholasticism)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153 (Devotional and Eloquent Doctor)
St. Anthony of Padua, 1195-1231 (Evangelical Doctor)
St. Albert the Great, 1200-1280 (Doctor of Science)
St. Bonaventure, 1217-1274 (Seraphic Doctor)
St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274 (Angelic Doctor)
St. Catherine of Siena, 1347-1379 (Doctor of Unity)
Counter-Reformation Church Doctors
St. Teresa of Avila 1515-1582 (Doctor of Prayer)
St. Peter Canisius, 1521-1597 (Doctor of Catechetical Studies)
St. John of the Cross, 1542-1591 (Mystical Doctor)
St. Robert Bellarmine, 1542-1621 (Doctor of Church State Relations)
St. Lawrence of Brindisi, 1559-1622 (Doctor of Conversions and Missions)
St. Francis de Sales, 1567-1622 (Doctor of Authors and the Press)
Church Doctors of the Modern Era
St. Alphonsus Liguori, 1696-1787 (Morality and Marian Doctor)
St. Therese of Lisieux, 1873-1897 (Doctor of Confidence and Missionaries)
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