Saint John Chrysostom
c. 347 – 407 · Post-Nicene Greek Fathers · Antiochene / Constantinopolitan
Commemorated November 13 → · Three Hierarchs Jan 30; relics Jan 27
Archbishop of Constantinople; the most beloved homilist of the patristic era, surnamed "Golden-mouthed" (Chrysostom). One of the Three Holy Hierarchs of the Orthodox Church. His Divine Liturgy is the Eucharistic celebration of the Orthodox Church on most days of the year. His enormous homiletical corpus — homilies on Matthew, John, Acts, Romans, the rest of Paul, and Hebrews, plus the Homilies on the Statues delivered during the riots of Antioch in 387, the treatise On the Priesthood, ascetic and pastoral letters — has shaped Orthodox preaching, biblical interpretation, and pastoral theology more than any other single author.
Works in the library · 22
- Commentary and Homilies on Galatians and Ephesianshomily
- Correspondence with the Bishop of Romeletter
- Exhortation to Theodore After His Fallletter
- Homilies on First Corinthianshomily
- Homilies on Paul's Epistle to the Romanshomily
- Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonianshomily
- Homilies on Second Corinthianshomily
- Homilies on St Ignatius and St Babylashomily
- Homilies on the Acts of the Apostleshomily
- Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrewshomily
- Homilies on the Gospel of Johnhomily
- Homilies on the Gospel of Matthewhomily
- Homilies on the Statues (to the People of Antioch)homily
- Homilies on Timothy, Titus, and Philemonhomily
- Homily Concerning Lowliness of Mindhomily
- Instructions to Catechumenshomily
- Letters to Olympiasletter
- Letter to a Young Widowletter
- No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himselftreatise
- On the Priesthood (De Sacerdotio)treatise
- Three Homilies Concerning the Power of Demonshomily
- Two Homilies on Eutropiushomily
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