Tertullian actively advocated traducianism ( that is, the parental generation of souls ), while some of the later Fathers — most notably Saint Augustine, at the outbreak of Pelagianism — began to question the creation by God of individual souls and to incline to the opposite opinion, which seemed to facilitate the explanation of the transmission of original sin.

According to Tertullian, Clement was consecrated by Saint Peter, and he is known to have been a leading member of the church in Rome in the late 1st century.

Early Christian texts nonetheless condemned abortion without distinction: Luker mentions the Didache, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, and Saint Basil.

The mission, the eighth Spanish mission built in California, was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Saint Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the order of the Poor Clares.

Of particular importance are the famous Arian ; Eunomius of Cyzicus ; Saint Dalmatius ; Proclus of Constantinople and Germanus of Auxerre, who became Patriarchs of Constantinople ; and Saint Emilian, a martyr in the eighth century.

The town's two historical points of interest are the unique 14th-century three-sided bridge, Trinity Bridge, which stands at its central point and used to be the confluence of three streams ; and the other is its ruined medieval Croyland Abbey, which was dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Guthlac in the eighth century.

The town is also home to a parochial school, Saint Agnes Academy, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grades.

Additionally, neighboring Lee is home to Saint Mary's School, a parochial school which serves students through eighth grade.

Private schools in Caldwell include Trinity Academy for kindergarten through eighth grade and Mount Saint Dominic Academy for grades 9-12, which operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Saint James and Saint John School is a Roman Catholic elementary and middle school ( preschool through eighth grade ) located on 7th Street in Center Benwood.

Saint Catherine School was a Roman Catholic elementary and middle school ( first through eighth grade ) that was located in North Benwood.

The region started to be Christianised from the eighth century, and the first church was built on the site of the current Saint Aldegonde's Church.

Abington is also home to Saint Bridgets School, a Catholic parochial school along Route 58, which offers a pre-school program and enrolls students from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Additionally, Lee is home to Saint Mary's School, a school which serves students through eighth grade.

* Saint Patrick School ( parochial school grades preschool through eighth )

* Saint Philp and James School ( parochial school grades preschool through eighth )

In 1937, Burger served as the eighth president of the Saint Paul Jaycees.

As early as the eighth century, Saint Boniface was writing to Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, to report how " In your diocese, the vice of drunkenness is too frequent.

There is also a parochial school in Adams, Saint Stanislaus Kostka, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, and other private schools are located in neighboring towns.

In 1913 / 14, he finished eighth in Saint Petersburg ( All Russian Masters ' Tournament – eighth Russian championship ; Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch came joint first ).< ref >

The town is noted for its Romanesque parish church of Saint Cadfan housing St Cadfan's Stone dating from the eighth or ninth century and inscribed with the oldest known written Welsh.

But Saint Perpetua, who was martyred in 202, believed herself to have been encouraged in a vision to pray for her brother, who had died in his eighth year, almost certainly unbaptized ; and a later vision assured her that her prayer was answered and he had been translated from punishment.

Fray Abreu y Galida reported in Historia de la Conquista de las siete Islas Canarias that " the island of Saint Brendan ( San Borondon ), which is the eighth and last, whose existence may be inferred from sightings of its apparitions, seems to be located at 20 degrees 30 minutes of latitude and eight leagues ( 40 kilometres ) due west of Gomera.

* 1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.

His mother's chaplain and hagiographer Thurgot was named Bishop of Saint Andrews ( or Cell Rígmonaid ) in 1107, presumably by Alexander's order.

Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, certainly did not found religious orders, though he took an interest in the monastic life and watched over its beginnings in his diocese, providing for the needs of a monastery outside the walls of Milam, as Saint Augustine recounts in his Confessions.

Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

In 982, still not yet thirty years old, Adalbert became the Bishop of Prague .< ref >“ Saint Adalbert of Prague ”.

The canonization of Saint Udalric, Bishop of Augsburg, by Pope John XV in 999 is the first undoubted example of a papal canonization of a saint from outside Rome ( Some historians maintain that the first such canonization was that of Saint Swibert by Pope Leo III in 804 ).

Most of the rumors circle from the same source of Saint Jerome who claimed “ Cyril was an out and out Arian, was offered the see on Maximus death on the condition that he would repudiate his ordination at the hands of that Bishop ”.

Saint Jerome was claiming not only that Cyril was an Arian but also involved directly or indirectly in the death of Maximus who he replaced as Bishop of Jerusalem.

The first bishop of Ethiopia, Saint Frumentius, was consecrated as Bishop of Axum by Pope Athanasius of Alexandria in 328 AD.

The Bishop of Alexandria, being the successor of the first Bishop in Egypt consecrated by Saint Mark, was honored by the other Bishops, as first among equals " Primus inter Pares ,".

The earliest English record of the kingdom dates to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which noted the arrival of Bishop ( later Saint ) Mellitus in London in 604.

* 1837 – Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury ( b. 1756 )

The author claims to be Saint Peter the apostle, and the epistle was traditionally held to have been written during his time as bishop of Rome or Bishop of Antioch, though neither title is used in the epistle.

Returning to Gaul, Irenaeus succeeded the martyr Saint Pothinus and became the second Bishop of Lyons.

St. Ignatius was Bishop of Antioch after Saint Peter and St. Evodius ( who died around 67 ).

* A younger brother, Saint Fulgentius of Cartagena, served as the Bishop of Astigi at the start of the new reign of the Catholic King Reccared.

The characteristics they shared with many Merovingian female saints may be mentioned: Regenulfa of Incourt, a 7th-century virgin in French-speaking Brabant of the ancestral line of the dukes of Brabant fled from a proposal of marriage to live isolated in the forest, where a curative spring sprang forth at her touch ; Ermelindis of Meldert, a 6th-century virgin related to Pepin I, inhabited several isolated villas ; Begga of Andenne, the mother of Pepin II, founded seven churches in Andenne during her widowhood ; the purely legendary " Oda of Amay " was drawn into the Carolingian line by spurious genealogy in her 13th-century vita, which made her the mother of Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, but she has been identified with the historical Saint Chrodoara ; finally, the widely-venerated Gertrude of Nivelles, sister of Begga in the Carolingian ancestry, was abbess of a nunnery established by her mother.

* Saint Altfrid, Bishop of Hildesheim, died 874

The Catholic Church teaches that, within the Christian community, the bishops as a body have succeeded to the body of the apostles and the Bishop of Rome has succeeded to Saint Peter.

The names " Holy See " and " Apostolic See " are ecclesiastical terminology for the ordinary jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome ( including the Roman Curia ); the pope's various honors, powers, and privileges within the Catholic Church and the international community derive from his Episcopate of Rome in lineal succession from the Apostle Saint Peter ( see Apostolic Succession ).

Since the papacy of Heraclas in the 3rd century, the Bishop of the Alexandria in both the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria continue to be called " Pope ", the former being called " Coptic Pope " or, more properly, " Pope and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Orthodox and Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle " and the last called " Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa ".