Quiz about basic knowledge of Christianity

The continuers of the work of the holy apostles, the Teachers of the Church, taught by the Holy Spirit, instruct people in saving Christian truths. The Orthodox Church reverently preserves their names and honours their memory, calling them "holy fathers and teachers of the Church". In the words of Clement of Alexandria, "words are the productions of the soul. Therefore we call those who instruct us fathers."

This title was given to those who, in the opinion of the Church, did not deviate in their teaching from Divine truth. Who has spent his whole life striving to protect the Divine truth from errors and heresies. Who was able to convey the inexpressible Divine truth in limited human language and to confirm it in the dogmas preserved by the Church.

Holy Fathers in the strict sense of the word, are outstanding preachers of the faith of Christ, who have worked hard in the field of enlightening people with the light of the Gospel, including in the field of writing.

Unlike church writers and church teachers in general (such as Origen and Tertullian, for example), the holy fathers were characterised by a special holiness of life, fervent zeal for the Lord, and orthodoxy of religious thinking.