Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. Who were the three

capidocians? Capidocia is in Turkey and these three capidocians were three

early Greek church fathers.

Two of them were brothers and all three of them were friends.

The first was Basil of Cessaria.

He was born in 330 and he lived to 379. And then we have his brother

Gregory. Gregory of Nisa. He was born two years after his older brother

Basil, so he was born in 332 and he lived until

395. And then there is the third capidution and this is another Gregory and

this is Gregory of Nazianzus.

He was the oldest of the three.

He was born in 329 and he died in 389.

So the three cappidotians are Basil the Great,

Gregory of Nisa and Gregory of Nazianzus.

Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus,

and sometimes they just called him Gregory the theologian.

Basil and Gregory of Nazianzas were friends. They knew each other through their

studies. They had met at numerous times in Cessaria and then spent six years together

studying in Athens. After his studies, Basil thought that he would have a career and rhetoric in a career as a philosopher, but he was challenged and encouraged by a bishop to pursue ministry.

And so he became a presbyter and then when Eusebius of Cessaria, the Bishop of Cessaria died,

Basil became the Bishop of Cessaria.

His brother became a Bishop and as we've already mentioned Gregory, the third

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