107 Letter of St. Ignatius of Antioch 108 Epistle of St. Polycarp to the Philippians 112/113 Letter of Pliny the Younger to Trajan 115 Annals of Tacitus
105/115
St Alexander
117/138
Hadrian
115/125
St Sixtus
125 Quadratus, first apologist
125/136
St Telesphorus
130 Conversion of St. Justin the Martyr 130 Gnostic school at Alexandria
136/140
St Hyginius
138/161
Antoninus Pius
140/155
St Pius I
143 “Contradictions” of Marcion 144 Marcion excommunicated from the Christian community
155/166
St Anicetus
161/169
Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
166/175
St Soter
169/180
Marcus Aurelius
171/180 “The Meditations” of Marcus Aurelius 177/180 “A Plea for the Christians” of Athenagoras 178 “True Reason” of Celsus 178 St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons 180 Catechetical school of Alexandria
175/189
St Eleutherius
180/192
Commodus
180 St. Clement of Alexandria 185 “Against Heresies” of St. Irenaeus
190 “Stromata” of St. Clement of Alexandria 190 Tertullian
