Chapter 3, 8 Names

Question 1

Overseer of Carthage, North Africa. Allowed Christians who faltered during persecution to return to their churches.

Answer 1

Cyprian (died AD 258)

Question 2

Devout Christian and mother of Emperor Constantine. In 326 she visited the Holy Land and had churches built in Bethlehem and on the Mount of Olives.

Answer 2

Helena (AD 255-330)

Question 3

Wrote the earliest surviving history of Christianity.

Answer 3

Eusebius of Caesarea (AD 263-339)

Question 4

Founder of communal (or cenobitic) monasticism in the Western Empire.

Answer 4

Pachomius (AD 292-346)

Question 5

One of the Great Cappadocians, opposed Arianism.

Answer 5

Basil of Caesarea (AD 329-379)

Question 6

One of the Great Cappadocians, opposed Arianism.

Answer 6

Gregory Nazianzus (AD 329-389)

Question 7

One of the Great Cappadocians, Basil’s brother.

Answer 7

Gregory Nyssa (AD 330-394)

Question 8

Monk and scholar, translated the Vulgate.

Answer 8

Jerome (AD 345-420)