Pope Francis has declared St. Irenaeus a Doctor of the Church, adding him to the ranks of 36 men and women who have been recognized for their contributions to the development of Christian doctrine.<\/p>\n
The Pope had affirmed his intention to declare the second-century saint a Doctor of the Church during a meeting with the Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group in 2021.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS St. Irenaeus is thought to have lived between around the years 130 and 202. He was likely born in Smyrna, in present-day Turkey, and later became the Bishop of Lyon in France.<\/p>\n The saint's writings were largely a response to Gnosticism, which posed a threat to the Church at the time by teaching that the faith was merely a symbol for people incapable of understanding challenging concepts.<\/p>\n Even Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI spoke admiringly about the saint during a General Audience in 2007. He described St. Irenaeus as \u201ca man of faith and a Pastor,\u201d and as \u201cthe champion in the fight against heresies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n CT<\/p>\n VM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 21, 2022. St. Ireneaus, a second-century bishop of Lyon, is the 37th person in the Church's history to receive this title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/K5kASognWAA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantireneodecretoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsantireneodecretoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>October 7, 2021
\n'Your patron, Saint Irenaeus of Lyon \u2013 whom soon I will willingly declare a Doctor of the Church with the title \u201cDoctor unitatis\u201d \u2013 came from the East, exercised his episcopal ministry in the West, and was a great spiritual and theological bridge between Eastern and Western Christians.'<\/em><\/p>\n