List of Eastern Orthodox Christians - Theologians and Clergy

Theologians and Clergy

  • Michael Apostolius
  • Basil of Caesarea – One of the Three Holy Hierarchs and a Doctor of the Church in Catholicism
  • Georges Florovsky
  • Charles Sydney Gibbes – English tutor of the Romanov children.
  • Michael Glycas – also a historian and poet
  • Thomas Hopko
  • Archbishop Iakovos – former Leader of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
  • John of Kronstadt – Archpriest
  • Jeremias II – Patriarch of Constantinople
  • John Chrysostom – One of the Three Holy Hierarchs and a Doctor of the Church in Catholicism
  • John of Shanghai and San Francisco
  • John of Tobolsk
  • Konstantin of Murom
  • Cyril Lucaris – Crypto-Protestant Patriarch of Constantinople
  • John Anthony McGuckin – Priest and professor, originally a Latin rite Catholic, but he changed to the Romanian Orthodox tradition.
  • Alexander Men
  • John Meyendorff
  • Metropolitan Gerasimos – Metropolitan Bishop of San Francisco
  • Peter Mohyla
  • Gregory Nazianzus – One of the Three Holy Hierarchs and a Doctor of the Church in Catholicism
  • Nicholas of Japan
  • Gregory Palamas
  • Grigol Peradze – Patristics, also a historian.
  • Maximus Planudes
  • Justin Popović
  • Sergius of Radonezh
  • Alexander Schmemann
  • Gennadius Scholarius
  • George Scoulos – Greek Orthodox priest
  • Victor Sokolov – Archpriest and Soviet dissident journalist
  • Theophan the Recluse
  • Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow – Martyr
  • Joseph Volotsky – Theologian/saint.
  • Bishop Savas of Troas – Director of the Office of Society and Culture of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
  • Olaf II of Norway – Martyr-King of Norway. Brought Christianity to Scandinavia

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