Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. (Hebrews 12:1)

Early Church Fathers Collection



Selected Writings of Early Church Fathers:

St. Athanasius Of Alexandria And St. Antony The Great
From the Clementine Homilies: Peter On chastity In Marriage
From the Clementine Homilies: The Golden Rule (On Philanthropy)
From St. Augustine Writings: Love Never Faileth
Theosis In The Writings of Pope St. Athanasius of Alexandria
Pope St. Athanasius of Alexandria On the Incarnation of the Word (Arabic - translated by the late Rev. Fr. Markos Daoud - incomplete version)
Writings of Pope St. Cyril of Alexandria: [1], [2]
Sayings of Desert Fathers - Paradise of the Desert Fathers (Excerpts)
History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria (Ta'rikh Batarikat al-Kanisah al-Misriyah by Severus (Sawirus ibn al-Muqaffa`), Bishop of Al'Ashmunein (Hermopolis) around the end of 10th century)
The Collection Of Safey The Son Of The Honey Maker (al-Magmou al-Safawy le-Ibn al-Assal - 1245 A.D.)
The Lamp That Lights The Darkness In Clarifying The Service (Misbah al-Zulmah fi Idah al-Khidmah by Ibn-Kabar, the Coptic priest of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo around - 1296-1332 A.D.)
Patrologia Graeca (Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca - J.P. Migne (+ 1875))
http://www.patristiccenter.org/


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ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

ecf01wh.zip: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus: Clement; Mathetes; Polycarp; Ignatius; Barnabas; Papias; Justin Martyr; Irenaeus

ecf02wh.zip: Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas; Tatian; Theophilus; Athenagoras; Clement of Alexandria

ecf03wh.zip: Latin Christianity: Tertullian: I. Apologetic; II. Anti-Marcion; III. Ethical

ecf04wh.zip: Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian; Minucius Felix; Commodianus; Origen

ecf05wh.zip: Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus; Cyprian; Caius; Novatian; Appendix: Baptism of Heretics, Anonymous Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian, Anonymous Treatise on Re-baptism

ecf06wh.zip: Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus; Dionysius the Great; Julius Africanus; Anatolius and Minor Writers; Archelaus; Alexander of Lycopolis; Peter of Alexandria; Alexander of Alexandria; Methodius; Arnobius

ecf07wh.zip: Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius; Venantius; Asterius Urbanus; Victorinus; Dionysius of Rome; Teaching of the Twelve Apostles; Constitutions of the Holy Apostles; Homily Ascribed to Clement; Early Liturgies

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ecf09wh.zip: Original Supplement to the American Edition: Gospel of Peter; Diatessaron of Tatian; Apocalypse of Peter; Visio Pauli; Apocalypses of the Virgin and of Sedrach; Testament of Abraham; Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena; Narrative of Zosimus; Apology of Aristides; Epistles of Clement (complete); Origen's Commentaries on John and Matthew (partial); The Shepherd of Hermas


NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, SERIES I

St. Augustine Volumes:

ecf10wh.zip: Prolegomena; Life and Works; Confessions; Letters

ecf11wh.zip: The City of God; Christian Doctrine

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ecf13wh.zip: Anti-Manichaean and Anti-Donatist Writings

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ecf17wh.zip: Expositions on the Psalms

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ecf18wh.zip: Prolegomena; On the Priesthood; Ascetic Treatises; Select Homilies and Letters; Homilies on the Statues

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ecf20wh.zip: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans

ecf21wh.zip: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians

ecf22wh.zip: Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon

ecf23wh.zip: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews


NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, SERIES II

ecf24wh.zip: Eusebius; Church History; Life of Constantine the Great; Oration in Praise of Constantine

ecf25wh.zip: Socrates Scholasticus: Ecclesiastical History; Sozomenus: Ecclesiastical History

ecf26wh.zip: Theodoret: Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, Letters; Jerome and Gennadius: Illustrious Men; Rufinus and Jerome; Life of Rufinus; Apology vs. Rufinus

ecf27wh.zip: St. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters

ecf28wh.zip: Gregory of Nyssa: Select Writings and Letters; Dogmatic Treatises

ecf29wh.zip: St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works

ecf30wh.zip: St. Cyril of Jerusalem: Catechetical Lectures; St. Gregory Nazianzen: Select Orations, Sermons, Letters; Dogmatic Treatises

ecf31wh.zip: St. Basil: Treatise De Spiritu Sancto; Nine Homilies of Hexaemeron

ecf32wh.zip: St. Hilary of Poitiers: Select Works on the Trinity and Psalms; John of Damascus: Exposition of Faith

ecf33wh.zip: St. Ambrose: Principal Works, Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, etc.

ecf34wh.zip: Sulpitius Severus: Extant Works; Vincent of Lerins: The Catholic Faith; John Cassian: On Institutes of the Coenobia; The Eight Principal Faults; Conferences; On the Incarnation vs. Nestorius

ecf35wh.zip: Leo the Great: Letters, Sermons; Gregory the Great: Pastoral Rule, etc.; Appendix: Chalcedon (Monophysitism: Reconsidered -- The Alexandrian Christological Mia Physis Formula)

ecf36wh.zip: Gregory the Great: Selected Epistles; Ephraim the Syrian: Hymns, Homilies; Aphrahat: Demonstrations

ecf37wh.zip: The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church; Canons and Decrees; Canons of Local Synods with Ecumenical Acceptance
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