All Christian monasticism stems, either directly or indirectly, from the Egyptian example: Saint Basil the Great Archbishop of Caesaria of Cappadocia, founder and organizer of the monastic movement in Asia Minor, visited Egypt around AD 357 and his rule is followed by the Eastern Orthodox Churches ; Saint Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin, came to Egypt, while en route to Jerusalem, around AD 400 and left details of his experiences in his letters ; Benedict founded the Benedictine Order in the 6th century on the model of Saint Pachomius, but in a stricter form.

In the Rite of Constantinople, two different anaphoras are currently used: one is attributed to Saint John Chrysostom, the other to Saint Basil the Great.

Along with the brothers Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers.

In the Roman Catholic Church he is numbered among the Doctors of the Church ; in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Eastern Catholic Churches he is revered as one of the Three Holy Hierarchs, along with Basil the Great and John Chrysostom.

A Byzantine-style icon depicting the Three Holy Hierarchs: ( left to right :) Basil the Great, John Chrysostom and Gregory the Theologian.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate two feast days in honor of Gregory: January 25 as his primary feast and January 30, known as the feast of the Three Great Hierarchs, which commemorates him along with John Chrysoston and Basil of Caesarea.

Basil the Great, on 2 January.

Basil the Great says, " The honor shown the image passes over to the archetype.

# Regarding the written tradition opposing the making and veneration of images, they asserted that icons were part of unrecorded oral tradition ( parádosis, sanctioned in Orthodoxy as authoritative in doctrine by reference to, Basil the Great, etc.

** Basil the Great ( Roman Catholic and Anglican Church )

** Basil the Great, Doctor, Bishop of Caesaria, Cappadocia, CE 379 ( Anglicanism )

Basil the Great

While there, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great ; in the same period, Julian was also initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.

The Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches honor him as a saint and count him among the Three Holy Hierarchs, together with Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzus.

The Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates him as a " Great Ecumenical Teacher ", together with Basil the Great and Gregory the Theologian.

Through Origen and especially the scholarly presbyter Pamphilus of Caesarea, an avid collector of books of Scripture, the theological school of Caesarea won a reputation for having the most extensive ecclesiastical library of the time, containing more than 30, 000 manuscripts: Gregory Nazianzus, Basil the Great, Jerome and others came and studied there.

" Ronald Hathaway provides a table listing most of the major identifications of Dionysius: e. g., Ammonius Saccas, Dionysius the Great, Peter the Fuller, Dionysius the Scholastic, Severus of Antioch, Sergius of Reshaina, unnamed Christian followers of everyone from Origen of Alexandria to Basil of Caesarea, Eutyches to Proclus.

In the film The Great Mouse Detective, the villain Ratigan attempts to kill the film's heroes, Basil of Baker Street and David Q. Dawson, with a Rube Goldberg style device.

* Basil the Great, Christian theologian, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia

* January 1 – Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea ( b. 330 )

Gregory's work received little scholarly attention in the West until the mid-twentieth century, and he was historically treated as a minor figure in comparison to Basil the Great or Gregory of Nazianzus.

Basil the Great is used.

Basil of Caesarea | Saint Basil the Great

Basil, who had long displayed inclinations to the episcopacy, was elected bishop of the see of Caesarea in Cappadocia in 370.

Basil created this see in order to strengthen his position in his dispute with Anthimus, bishop of Tyana.

* 1926 – Basil Salvadore D ’ Souza, Indian bishop ( d. 1996 )

Gregory was elected bishop of the new see of Nyssa in 372, presumably with the support of his brother Basil, who was metropolitan of Caesarea.

Gregory's early policies as bishop often went against those of Basil: for instance, while his brother condemned the Sabellianist followers of Marcellus of Ancyra as heretics, Gregory may have tried to reconcile them with the church.

* Basil the Great becomes bishop of Caesarea ( Cappadocia ).

Basil instead sent the wife of one of his officials with the bishop of Sebaste.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

He afterwards resided at Chalcedon and at Caesarea in Cappadocia, from which he was expelled by the inhabitants for writing against their bishop Basil.

Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, ( 329 or 330 – January 1, 379 ) () was the Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor ( modern-day Turkey ).

The Cappadocian Fathers ( or Cappadocian philosophers ) are Basil the Great ( 330-379 ), who was bishop of Caesarea ; Basil's younger brother Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 332-395 ), who was bishop of Nyssa ; and a close friend, Gregory of Nazianzus ( 329-389 ), who became Patriarch of Constantinople.

Basil the Great was the second oldest of Makrina's brothers, the eldest being the famous Christian jurist Naucratius, and another brother, Peter, also became a bishop.

* William Basil Jones ( 1822 – 1897 ), bishop of St David's

:" About this period Meletius, bishop of Antioch, fell sick and died: in whose praise Gregory, the brother of Basil, pronounced a funeral oration.

Basil the Great, a fourth century teacher, bishop, and doctor of the Church, to be the namesake of the new community.

* Anthimus of Tyana, bishop in AD 372 ; at times an opponent of Basil of Caesarea

At the second Council of Sirmium in 351, Basil, bishop of Ancyra ( now Ankara ) and leader of the semi-Arians, had Photinus deposed.

In the letter, he claimed this action to be necessary on the grounds that the Department of External Church Relations was actively supporting a dissident element in the diocese which was working to undermine him – and this, claimed Bishop Basil, constituted a violation of the canonical principle that one bishop may not interfere in the diocese of another.

However, when Fr Stephen subsequently insisted – after a series of private conversations between himself and Archbishop Innokenty – that he be received with a letter of dismissal from Archbishop Innokenty, Bishop Basil considered that Fr Stephen was behaving in a manner ' extremely damaging to the Vicariate ', and decided, together with the ruling bishop of the Exarchate, Archbishop Gabriel of Comana, that Fr Stephen could not be a priest of the Exarchate.

* Basil of Caesarea, bishop of Caesarea, and author of Against Eunomius.