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Desert Fathers

early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt beginning around the third century AD

7 dated entries naming Desert Fathers, drawn from 7 separate years between 352 CE and 543 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Desert Father in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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4th century

  • 352Arsenius the Great, anchorite and Desert Father (approximate date)source
  • 356Anthony the Great, Egyptian monk and Desert Fathersource
  • 360John Cassian, Desert Father and Christian saint (approximate date)source
  • 375Pambo (or Pemwah), Coptic Desert Father (b. 305)source

5th century

  • 435John Cassian, Desert Father and theologiansource
  • 445Arsenius the Great, Desert Fathersource

6th century

  • 543John the Prophet, Palestinian hermit and Desert Fathersource

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