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The '''Ante-Nicene Fathers''' are a collection of extant writings of the Church Fathers, from the Apostolic fathers up to the date of the first General Council that was held at [[Nicea]] in 325AD. The only exception to this rule, are the writings of Origen.

== List of Ante-Nicene Fathers ==
'''The Apostolic Fathers:''' 
*[[Clement of Rome]], 
*Mathetes, 
*[[Polycarp of Smyrna|Polycarp]], 
*[[Ignatius of Antioch|Ignatius]], 
*[[Apostle Barnabas]], 
*[[Papias]], 
*[[Justin Martyr]], 
*[[Irenaeus of Lyons|Irenaeus]]. 

'''The Second Century Fathers'''
*[[Hermas]], 
*Tatian, 
*[[Theophilus of Antioch|Theophilus]], 
*[[Athenagoras]], 
*[[Clement of Alexandria]]. 

'''The Third Century Fathers'''
*[[Tertullian]]; 
*Minucius Felix; 
*Commodian; 
*[[Origen]]
*Hippolytus; 
*Cyprian; 
*Caius; 
*Novatian; 
*[[Gregory the Wonderworker]]; 
*[[Dionysius of Alexandria|Dinoysius]] the Great; 
*Julius Africanus; 
*Anatolius 

'''Minor Writers;'''
*Methodius and Arnobius 

'''The Fourth Century fathers'''
*Lactantius, 
*Venantius, 
*Asterius, 
*Victorinus, 
*Dionysius

== See also ==
*[[Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers]]

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