THE CAPADOCIAN FATHERS:  The three brilliant leaders of philosophical Christian orthodoxy in the later 4th cent., namely St. Basil the Great, Bp. of Caesarea in Cappadocia, St. Gregory of Nazianzus (from his birthplace, where his father was bishop), and St Gregory, Bp. of Nyssa . They were the chief influence which led to the final defeat of Arianism at the Council of Constantinople of 381. They were all Cappadocians by birth.

Besides works listed under the individual Fathers, see also B. Otis, ‘Cappadocian Thought as a Coherent System’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 12 (1958), pp. 95–124. A. Meredith, SJ, The Cappadocians (Outstanding Christian Thinkers, 1995).

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