ROMAN EMPERORS

POPES

HISTORY of the Early Christians

98/117
Trajan 

97/105 
St Evaristus

  

 

  1. 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
  1. 125 Quadratus, first apologist

125/136
St Telesphorus
  1. 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

St. Clement of Alexandria

185 “Against Heresies” of St. Irenaeus

190 “Stromata” of St. Clement of Alexandria
190 Tertullian

189/199
St Victor

193
Pertinax

 

193
Didius Julianus

193/198
Septimius Severus

198/211
Septimius and Caracalla
        

199/217
St Zephyrinus