| COVER STORY |
| The Doctors of the Church in Order of their Proclamation |
| A. The group of "great Doctors" venerated since the early Middle Ages |
| 1. The "great Doctors" of the West Ambrose |
2. The "great Doctors" of the East Basil |
| B. The two "great Doctors" of the Middle Ages | |||
| Year of Proclamation 1567 1588 |
Name Thomas Aquinas Bonaventure of Bagnoregio |
Religious Order Dominican Franciscan |
Proclaiming Pontiff Pius V Sixtus V |
| C. The group of Doctors from the 18th century on | |||
| 1720 1722 1729 1754 1829 1830 1851 1871 1877 1882 1882 1890 1899 1920 1925 1926 1931 1931 1946 1959 1970 1970 1997 |
Anselm of Aosta Isidore of Seville Peter Chrysologus Leo the Great Pier Damiani Bernard of Clairvaux Hilary of Poitiers Alphonse Maria de Liguori Francis de Sales Cyril of Jerusalem Cyril of Alexandria John Damascene The Venerable Bede Ephraim the Syriac Pietro Canisio Jesuit John of the Cross Roberto Bellarmino Albert the Great Anthony of Padua Lorenzo da Brindisi Teresa of Avila Catherine of Siena Thérèse of the Child Jesus |
Benedictine Benedictine Cistercian founder of the Redemptorists Benedictine Carmelite Jesuit Dominican Franciscan Capuchin Carmelite Dominican Carmelite |
Clement XI Innocent XIII Benedict XIII Benedict XIV Leo XII Pius VIII Pius IX Pius IX Pius IX Leo XIII Leo XIII Leo XIII Leo XIII Benedict XV Pius XI Pius XI Pius XI Pius XI Pius XII John XXIII Paul VI Paul VI John Paul II |
Date of the Deaths of the Doctors of the Church