Christianity in Credo: People & Places

From Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
Known as Basil the Great and one of the three Cappadocian Fathers, Basil of Caesarea was born ca. 330 into a wealthy Christian family in Pontus.

From Who's Who in Christianity
Florovsky was the son of a Russian Orthodox priest and was educated at the University of Odessa. After the Revolution, he left Russia and held academic positions in Sofia, Prague and Paris. After the Second World War, he moved to the United States of America, where he taught in New York, at Harvard and at Princeton.

From Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
By the 7th century Gregory Nazianzen (ca. 330-ca. 390), known as “the Theologian,” was one of the most studied of all Greek authors.

From Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
While undoubtedly a master theologian of the Greek church, influencing certainly Maximus the Confessor and possibly Gregory Palamas, Gregory of Nyssa came to prominence as a churchman slowly, and even then followed an unusual career.

From Who's Who in Christianity
Gregory was educated in Constantinople and in c. 1316, he joined the monastic community on Mount Athos. In 1326 he was ordained priest and in 1347 he was consecrated Archbishop of Thessalonica.

From Who's Who in Christianity
Meyendorff was awarded a doctorate from the Sorbonne, Paris. He has spent his career in the United States of America, where he has taught at both Harvard and Fordham Universities.

From Who's Who in Christianity
Lossky was educated at the University of St Petersburg, Russia, at Prague and at the Sorbonne. He had been expelled from Russia by the Soviet government in 1922 and he finally settled in Paris and the United States of America.

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Former capital of the Byzantine Empire and of the Ottoman Empire, since 1930 officially called Istanbul.

The Eastern Roman Empire 395-1453, with its capital at Constantinople (formerly Byzantium, modern Istanbul). It was the direct continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, and inherited many of its traditions and institutions.

Ancient region of Asia Minor, watered by the Halys River (the modern Kizil Irmak), in present E central Turkey. The name was applied at different times to territories of varying size.

Officially Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, republic (2005 est. pop. 73,053,000), 471,776 sq mi (1,221,900 sq km), NE Africa.

[Gr.,=Holy Wisdom] or Santa Sophia, Turkish Aya Sofia, originally a Christian church at Constantinople (now Istanbul), later a mosque, and now converted into a museum.