Biographical dossier

John Chrysostom

John Chrysostom is classified in the historical people index as RELIGIOUS FIGURE. This dossier preserves the indexed life dates and geographic anchors while explicitly marking what the source does not supply.

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Record details
Research ID
catholon:person:person:wd:Q43706
Catalogue ID
person:wd:Q43706
Wikidata ID
Q43706
Occupation class
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
Life span
AD 349–AD 407
Birth anchor
Antioch (AD 349)
Death anchor
Comana Pontica (AD 407)
HPI
82.93305700527179

Chronological record

The dataset places the life between AD 349 and AD 407. These indexed dates are identity and chronology fields, not a substitute for a critical biography.

Geographic anchors

Birth: Antioch (AD 349). Death: Comana Pontica (AD 407).

Country keys are dataset keys and must not be mistaken for the historical boundaries that existed during the person’s lifetime.

Historical role

The source assigns the broad occupation class RELIGIOUS FIGURE. It does not by itself establish doctrine, sanctity, political legitimacy, responsibility for every event associated with the person, or the exact scope of an office.

Source and identity method

Source: PANTHEON_2_2020. Identity method: pantheon_wikidata_qid. Language-edition measure: 12.598690170788899.

Research questions

  1. Which primary sources are contemporary with this person?
  2. Which office, community or institution gives the person historical agency?
  3. How do later confessional, national or ideological narratives reshape the record?
  4. Which places on the atlas are genuine life anchors and which are later reception sites?
Phase II — source-led historical deepening

Historical horizon

John Chrysostom belongs to the urban Church of Antioch and Constantinople, to the history of preaching and to conflicts between episcopal authority and the imperial court. The profile reads the homilies together with the contested circumstances of exile and reception.

Primary-source path

  • Homilies on Matthew
  • Homilies on Romans
  • On the Priesthood
  • Letters from exile
  • Palladius, Dialogue on the Life of John Chrysostom

Geography and institutions

Birth anchor: Antioch; Death anchor: Comana Pontica The map anchors support navigation, but no point is treated as the whole extent of a ministry, kingdom, journey or later cult.

Connected study paths

Church FathersAntiochConstantinople

This layer expands the catalogue entry without turning later reception into contemporary evidence. Confessional judgements, historical claims and uncertain traditions remain explicitly distinguishable.