He was formerly identified with an Egyptian priest who, after the destruction of the pagan temple at Alexandria ( 389 ), fled to Constantinople, where he became the tutor of the ecclesiastical historian Socrates.

Some, like theologian and ecclesiastical historian John Henry Newman, understand Eusebius ' statement that he had heard Dorotheus of Tyre " expound the Scriptures wisely in the Church " to indicate that Eusebius was Dorotheus ' pupil while the priest was resident in Antioch ; others, like the scholar D. S. Wallace-Hadrill, deem the phrase too ambiguous to support the contention.

Frederick Charles Copleston, SJ, CBE ( 10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994 ) was a Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy.

* 1846 – Samuel Johnson, Nigerian historian and priest ( d. 1901 )

Saint Jerome ( c. 347 – 30 September 420 ; ( also Hierom or Jerom ) (; ) was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church.

* 1901 – Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest ( d. 1978 )

The most notable leader of the movement, though maintaining a certain distance from the Old Catholic Church as an institution, was the renowned church historian and priest Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( 1799 – 1890 ), who had been excommunicated by the pope because of his support for the affair.

The term " Physicist " was coined by English philosopher, priest, and historian of science William Whewell in 1840, to denote a cultivator of physics.

St. Peter Damian is alleged to have described him as " feasting on immorality "; the anti-papal historian Ferdinand Gregorovius wrote that in Benedict, " a demon from hell in the disguise of a priest ... occupied the chair of Peter and profaned the sacred mysteries of religion by his insolent courses.

Many of these early polymaths were also religious priests and theologians: for example, Alhazen and al-Biruni were mutakallimiin ; the physician Avicenna was a hafiz ; the physician Ibn al-Nafis was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema ; the botanist Otto Brunfels was a theologian and historian of Protestantism ; the astronomer and physician Nicolaus Copernicus was a priest.

* 1819 – Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian ( d. 1902 )

** Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest ( died 1978 )

* February 13 – Anders Sørensen Vedel, priest and historian ( b. 1542 )

* Gildas, British historian and priest ( approximate date )

* Gennadius of Massilia, priest and historian

That Poseidon and Erechtheus were two names at Athens for the same figure ( see below ) was demonstrated in the cult at the Erechtheum, where there was a single altar, a single priest and sacrifices were dedicated to Poseidon erechtheus, Walter Burkert observed, adding " An historian would say that a Homeric, pan-Hellenic name has been superimposed on an autochthonous, non-Greek name.

* Elie Melia ( 1915 – 1988 ), a Georgian Orthodox priest and church historian

Paulus Orosius ( born c. 375, died not before 418 ), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a priest, Christian historian, theologian and student of Saint Augustine of Hippo.

* Natalino Božo Zuanella, priest, historian and activist ;

* Lyman Pierson Powell-Episcopalian priest, college president, and historian.

Lionel-Adolphe Groulx (; January 13, 1878 – May 23, 1967 ) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian and Quebec nationalist.

210 – 273 ), Greek historian, statesman and general, was an hereditary priest of the Eleusinian family of the Kerykes, and held the offices of archon basileus and eponymous in Athens.

* Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet ( 1792-1867 ), Scottish lawyer and historian ( son of the priest )

The historian D. P. Kirby argues that Paulinus and Æthelburg must therefore have gone to Northumbria earlier than 624, and that Paulinus went north, not as a bishop, but as a priest, returning later to be consecrated.

Coming from a priest, the music sounds as odd as the advice:

news of a Protestant minister in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic priest to preach from his pulpit ; ;

In Iliad, his priest prays to Apollo Smintheus, the mouse god who retains an older agricultural function as the protector from field rats.

11: 11 ); and when David fled from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's conspiracy, the Ark was carried along with him until he ordered Zadok the priest to return it to Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.

He twice ran away from home without permission to hear his elder brother play violin concertos in neighboring churches on festival days ( resulting in the loss of his beloved sugar ), and he also recounted being chastised by his father after failing to greet a local priest with proper respect.

John Wesley, along with a priest from the Anglican Church and two other elders, operating under the ancient Alexandrian custom, ordained Thomas Coke a " superintendent ", although Coke embraced the title " bishop ".

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

With this connection, Anubis became the patron god of embalmers: during the funerary rites of mummification, illustrations from the Book of the Dead often show a priest wearing the jackal mask supporting the upright mummy.

Albinus, the abbot of the monastery in Canterbury, provided much information about the church in Kent, and with the assistance of Nothhelm, at that time a priest in London, obtained copies of Gregory the Great's correspondence from Rome relating to Augustine's mission.

The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

It derives its name from, and records the visions of, the 6th century BC priest and prophet Ezekiel.

It was the final stage of the reformers ' work of removing all elements of sacrificial offering from the Latin Mass ; so that it should cease to be seen as a ritual at which the priest, on behalf of the faithful offered Christ's body and blood to God ; and might rather be seen as a ritual whereby Christ shared his body and blood, according to a different sacramental theology, with the faithful.

In early times the privilege of papal election was not reserved to the cardinals, and for centuries the pope was customarily a Roman priest and never a bishop from elsewhere ; to preserve apostolic succession the rite of consecrating the pope as a bishop had to be performed by someone who was already a bishop.

While the number of cardinals was small from the times of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance, and frequently smaller than the number of recognized churches entitled to a cardinal priest, in the 16th century the College expanded markedly.

In 1744 a Jesuit priest named Father Roman, while ascending the Orinoco River, met some Portuguese slave-traders from the settlements on the Rio Negro.

In the decrees on marriage ( twenty-fourth session ) the excellence of the celibate state was reaffirmed ( see also clerical celibacy ), concubinage condemned and the validity of marriage made dependent upon the wedding taking place before a priest and two witnesses, although the lack of a requirement for parental consent ended a debate that had proceeded from the 12th century.

Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.