Doctors of the Catholic Church

All of the Catholics who have been officially proclaimed as a "Doctor of the Church" by the Roman Catholic Church.

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Year Declared	Hint	Doctor
1298	Pope who is credited with starting the tradition of Gregorian Chant	Pope St. Gregory the Great
1298	Milanese bishop, helped to convert Augustine	St. Ambrose
1298	Bishop, known for his conversion story and his "Confessions"	St. Augustine
1298	Known for penning the Latin Vulgate	St. Jerome
1567	Medieval Dominican monk, known as the "Angelic Doctor"	St. Thomas Aquinas
1568	Greek father known for his "golden mouth"	St. John Chrysostom
1568	Cappadocian father known as "the great"	St. Basil the Great
1568	Close associate of the above	St. Gregory of Nazianzus
1568	Known for opposing the Arian heresy	St. Athanasius
1588	Medieval Franciscan monk, known as the "Seraphic Doctor"	St. Bonaventure
1720	British bishop known for his "Ontological Argument"	St. Anselm of Canterbury
1722	Spanish bishop known for his etymologies	St. Isidore of Seville
1729	4th century bishop known for his homilies	St. Peter Chrysologus
1754	Pope known for his Christological doctrine	Pope St. Leo the Great
1828	Benedictine monk known for his reforms during the 11th century	St. Peter Damian
1830	Abbot, revivalist of monasticism, closely associated with the Cistercians	St. Bernard of Clairvaux
1851	4th century French bishop known as the "Hammer of the Arians"	St. Hilary of Poitiers
1871	18th century Italian bishop, founded the Redemptorists	St. Alphonsus Liguori
1877	French bishop, known for reconciling Protestants and his "Introduction to the Devout Life"	St. Francis de Sales

Year Declared	Hint	Doctor
1883	Egyptian patriarch, known for combating Nestorianism	St. Cyril of Alexandria
1883	Bishop of Jerusalem, known for writings on instructing catechumens and the order of the liturgy	St. Cyril of Jerusalem
1890	Syrian bishop and polymath known for his defense of icons	St. John Damascene
1899	British bishop known as the "Father of English History," and for his calculation of calendar dates	St. Bede the Venerable
1920	Syrian bishop known for his extensive writing of hymns	St. Ephrem the Syrian
1925	Jesuit priest known for restoring the German Church after the Reformation	St. Peter Canisius
1926	Spanish Discalced Carmelite monk, known as the "Mystical Doctor"	St. John of the Cross
1931	Jesuit Cardinal known for his role in the Galileo affair and for his defense of the Council of Trent	St. Robert Bellarmine
1931	Medieval Dominican friar known as the "Doctor Expertus"	St. Albert the Great
1946	Widely venerated Franciscan friar known for his patronage of lost things	St. Anthony of Padua
1959	Franciscan friar who brought many Jews and Protestants to Catholicism due to his extensive knowledge of language	St. Lawrence of Brindisi
1970	Spanish nun known for her doctrine on prayer and for founding the Discalced Carmelites	St. Teresa of Avila
1970	Medieval Italian nun who exerted great political influence on the Popes of her day	St. Catherine of Siena
1997	"The Little Flower" known for her "Little Way"	St. Therese of Lisieux
2012	Spanish priest who was imprisoned by the Inquisition, noted preacher	St. John of Avila
2012	German nun known for her art, writing, and music	St. Hildegard of Bingen
2015	Armenian monk known for his poetry and theology	St. Gregory of Narek
2021	Very early bishop, known for his work "Adversus Haereses"	St. Irenaeus of Lyon

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