Category:Doctor of the Church

The title, "Doctor of the Church", was first given to certain saints on September 20, 1295, by Boniface XIII. They included Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, and Saint Gregory the Great. The next added as Saint Thomas Aquinas and since then has grown to include thirty-three saints.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great Saint Ambrose Saint Augustine Saint Jerome Saint John Chrysostom Saint Basil the Great Saint Gregory of Nazianzus Saint Athanasius Saint Thomas Aquinas Saint Bonaventure Saint Anselm Saint Isidore of Seville Saint Peter Chrysologus Pope Saint Leo the Great Saint Peter Damian Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Hilary of Poitiers Saint Alphonsus Liguori Saint Francis de Sales Saint Cyril of Alexandria Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Saint John Damascene Saint Bede (also known as Venerable Bede) Saint Ephrem of Syria Saint Peter Canisius Saint John of the Cross Saint Robert Bellarmine Saint Albert the Great Saint Anthony of Padua Saint Lawrence of Brindisi Saint Teresa of Avila Saint Catherine of Siena Saint Thérèse of Lisieux