On the Priesthood: The Complete Text

An office of awful dignity, greater than that of the angels, and of manifold peril.

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About this edition

Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347–407), Archbishop of Constantinople, was surnamed Chrysostom, the golden-mouthed, for the eloquence of his preaching. In his youth he and his friend Basil resolved to forsake the world together; but when the Church sought to make them both bishops, Chrysostom, by a stratagem of holy guile, contrived that Basil should be ordained while he himself escaped.

On the Priesthood is the dialogue in which, some years afterward, he justifies that flight to his wounded friend, and in doing so unfolds the loftiest vision of the priestly office in all Christian antiquity: its awful dignity, greater than that of the angels; its manifold perils; and the holiness it demands of those who bear it. For sixteen centuries it has formed and searched the consciences of the clergy.

This Sanctified Souls Press edition gives the six books complete, in the public-domain English of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Newly set on cream paper, for reading and keeping.

Details

• Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347–407), Archbishop of Constantinople, Father and Doctor of the Church
• Translated by W. R. W. Stephens, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
• Complete and unabridged: the whole treatise in six books
• Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint John Chrysostom, Book Four
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 110 pages, cream paper

Cover: Icon with Three Church Fathers, Greek, c. 1500 or later, elephant ivory with dark stain; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain. The three are the Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, and Gregory the Theologian, with Chrysostom at the centre.