Apostolic Fathers

Early Christian writings produced in the late 1st and 2nd century.

The Apostolic Fathers is a term used to describe a group of Early Christian writings produced in the late 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century. These writings, though not unpopular in Early Christianity, were ultimately not part of the New Testament once it reached its final form. Many of the writings derive from the same time period and geographical location as other works of early Christian literature that did come to be part of the final form of the New Testament, and some of the writings found among the "Apostolic Fathers" seem to have been just as highly regarded as some of the writings (that remained) in the New Testament.

List of works:

The Epistle to Diognetus

The First Epistle of Clement

The Second Epistle of Clement (not actually written by Clement)

The Didache

The Epistle of Barnabas

Seven Epistles of Ignatius (the longer forms of these Epistles, and those beyond the seven, are widely considered later emendations and forgeries)

The Epistle of Polycarp

The Martyrdom of Polycarp

The Shepherd of Hermas

Fragments of the writings of Papias, which have survived as quotations in later writers

One short fragment of a writing by Quadratus of Athens

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