When was Saint Luke canonized?

Answer 1

There is no known record in existence that shows this. What is known is that he was a companion of Paul and so he would have been born sometime in the first half of the first century. He was not one of the 'eyewitnesses and servants of the word' (Luke 1:2) from which he researched the details of the Gospel of Luke. As Acts which Luke wrote, can be dated around 61 AD a date around 30 AD would be possible, although due to the scanty records about Luke in the New Testament this cannot be fixed with any certainty.

Answer 2

St. Luke was traditionally believed to have been canonized in the early days of the Christian Church, around the 1st century. However, the formal canonization process as we know it today was not in place during that time.

Answer 3

St. Luke is a "pre-congregational" saint. In other words, he would have been proclaimed a saint by popular acclamation and devotion long before there was an established process within the Church for canonization. He devoted his life to spreading the gospel and is thought to have been the author of the Gospel of Like as well as os the Acts of the Apostles.

Answer 4

We do not know when Luke was born but it was probably early in the first century. He died about the year 74 in Greece. Some stories say he was martyred, others that he died of natural causes.
Luke was an evangelist and not an apostle. We do not know when Luke was born but it was probably early in the first century. He died about the year 74 in Greece. Some stories say he was martyred, others that he died of natural causes.

Answer 5

The New Testament gospels were all written anonymously, but the third gospel was attributed to Luke by the Church Fathers, later in the second century. We no nothing of the real author of this gospel, including when he was born. Now that Luke's Gospel has been dated to around the turn of the century, it is a reasonable conclusion that the author was born some time after the middle of the first century.

Paul mentions Luke in Philemon 1:24, where he merely says that he was a fellow-labourer for the faith. The pseudo-Pauline epistle to the Colossians says that Luke was a physician, and another pseudo-Pauline epistle known as 2 Timothy again mentions Luke. None of this tells us when Luke was born, except that Paul acknowledges him as a contemporary.

Answer 6

We do not know when, where or how St. Luke died. Tradition says he died of old age, probably late in the first century.

Answer 7

Luke was not an apostle. He was an evangelist. He was born early in the first century AD.

Answer 8

Luke is thought to have died in the year 74 at the age of 84. That would have made his birth about the year 10 BC.

Answer 9

Saint Luke's home town was in Philippi