The first church father to name Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as the four Gospels in the New Testament is Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyons in Gaul (i.e., the ancient forerunner of Lyon, France), in his five-volume work, "Against Heresies" in 1985 CE.   He spent significant time in Rome itself before his appointment in Gaul, [...]

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