The Doctors of the Church

The great Doctors of the West 4

Venerated as Doctors since the early Middle Ages; St Bede already names them in the eighth century.

1. A

   St Ambrose of Milan

   † 397

   9 works in the Fathers library

2. J

   St Jerome

   † 419–20

   45 works in the Fathers library · Spiritus Paraclitus (Benedict XV, 1920)

3. A

   St Augustine of Hippo

   Doctor Gratiae

   † 430

   51 works in the Fathers library

4. 

   Pope St Gregory I the Great

   † 604

   2 works in the Fathers library · 3 works in the library

The great Doctors of the East 4

Given the liturgical honours of the four Latin Doctors by St Pius V (Breviary, 1568).

1. B

   St Basil the Great

   † 379

   3 works in the Fathers library

2. G

   St Gregory of Nazianzus

   † c. 390

   4 works in the Fathers library

3. J

   St John Chrysostom

   † 407

   42 works in the Fathers library

4. A

   St Athanasius of Alexandria

   † 373

   30 works in the Fathers library

The two great medieval Doctors 2

1. T

   St Thomas Aquinas

   Doctor Angelicus

   † 1274 · declared a Doctor on 11 April 1567 by Pope St Pius V

   1 work in the library · the Summa Theologiae · Doctoris Angelici (Pius X, 1914) · Studiorum ducem (Pius XI, 1923)

2. B

   St Bonaventure

   Doctor Seraphicus

   † 1274 · declared a Doctor on 14 March 1588 by Pope Sixtus V

   1 work in the library

The Doctors declared since the eighteenth century 19

1. A

   St Anselm

   Doctor Marianus

   † 1109 · declared a Doctor on 3 February 1720 by Pope Clement XI

   4 works in the library

2. I

   St Isidore of Seville

   † 636 · declared a Doctor on 25 April 1722 by Pope Innocent XIII

   1 work in the library

3. P

   St Peter Chrysologus

   † c. 450 · declared a Doctor on 10 February 1729 by Pope Benedict XIII

4. L

   Pope St Leo I the Great

   † 461 · declared a Doctor on 15 October 1754 by Pope Benedict XIV

   2 works in the Fathers library

5. P

   St Peter Damian

   † 1072 · declared a Doctor on 27 September 1829 by Pope Leo XII

   6 works in the library

6. 

   St Bernard of Clairvaux

   Doctor Mellifluus

   † 1153 · declared a Doctor on 20 August 1830 by Pope Pius VIII

   4 works in the library · Doctor mellifluus (Pius XII, 1953)

7. H

   St Hilary of Poitiers

   † 367 · declared a Doctor on 13 May 1851 by Pope Pius IX

   3 works in the Fathers library

8. 

   St Alphonsus Liguori

   Doctor Zelantissimus

   † 1787 · declared a Doctor on 7 June 1871 by Pope Pius IX

   4 works in the library

9. 

   St Francis de Sales

   † 1622 · declared a Doctor on 16 September 1877 by Pope Pius IX

   2 works in the library · Rerum omnium (Pius XI, 1923)

10. C

    St Cyril of Jerusalem

    † 386 · declared a Doctor on 28 July 1882 by Pope Leo XIII

    1 work in the Fathers library

11. C

    St Cyril of Alexandria

    † 444 · declared a Doctor on 28 July 1882 by Pope Leo XIII

    1 work in the Fathers library · Orientalis Ecclesiae (Pius XII, 1944)

12. J

    St John of Damascus

    † 749? · declared a Doctor on 19 August 1890 by Pope Leo XIII

    1 work in the Fathers library

13. B

    St Bede the Venerable

    † 735 · declared a Doctor on 13 November 1899 by Pope Leo XIII

    1 work in the library

14. 

    St Ephrem the Syrian

    Doctor Marianus

    † 378 · declared a Doctor on 5 October 1920 by Pope Benedict XV

    5 works in the Fathers library

15. P

    St Peter Canisius

    † 1597 · declared a Doctor on 31 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI

16. 

    St John of the Cross

    Doctor Mysticus

    † 1591 · declared a Doctor on 24 August 1926 by Pope Pius XI

    4 works in the library

17. 

    St Robert Bellarmine

    † 1621 · declared a Doctor on 17 September 1931 by Pope Pius XI

    6 works in the library

18. A

    St Albert the Great

    Doctor Universalis

    † 1280 · declared a Doctor on 16 December 1931 by Pope Pius XI

    In thesauris sapientiae (Pius XI, 1931) · Ad Deum (Pius XII, 1941)

19. 

    St Anthony of Padua

    Doctor Evangelicus

    † 1231 · declared a Doctor on 16 January 1946 by Pope Pius XII