Gregory Thaumaturgus

by Ullmann, Manfred

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Gregory Thaumaturgus (b. c.210, d. 268 C.E.), was a Father of the Church. He was born, as Theodorus, into a noble, heathen family in Neo-Caesarea (now Niksar, on the Kelkit River, in northeastern Anatolia). At the age of fourteen he became acquainted with Christianity. Having studied the Latin language, Roman jurisprudence, and rhetoric in Berytus (Beirut), he went to Caesarea Maritima (on the coast of Palestine, some twenty-five miles south of present-day Haifa), where he met Origen (d. c. 254…

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Gregory Thaumaturgus (b. c.210, d. 268 C.E.), was a Father of the Church. He was born, as Theodorus, into a noble, heathen family in Neo-Caesarea (now Niksar, on the Kelkit River, in northeastern Anatolia). At the age of fourteen he became acquainted with Christianity. Having studied the Latin language, Roman jurisprudence, and rhetoric in Berytus (Beirut), he went to Caesarea Maritima (on the coast of Palestine, some twenty-five miles south of present-day Haifa), where he met Origen (d. c. 254 C.E.), with whom he

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