The Early Church Fathers...
The Apostle John
Apostle Mark - died AD 68 founded the School in Alexandria
Polycarp - AD 80-167 Bishop of Smyrna
Irenaeus - died AD 202 Bishop of Lugdunum, Gaul
Athanasius of Alexandria - AD 296-373
Athanasius and Irenaeus emphasised that the incarnation, when the Son of God became a human being, affected all humanity. God chose to save humanity through the birth, life, sacrificial death and resurrection of the Incarnate Son of God. This is the essence of the gospel understood by the early church and revealed in the Scriptures.
Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Pantaenus, Clement, Origen, Lucian, Diodore, Theodore, Chrysostom, Eusebiius, Titus, Basil.
Alexandria was the metropolis of Egypt, the flourishing seat of commerce, of Grecian and Jewish learning, and of the greatest library of the ancient world, and was destined to become one of the great centres of Christianity, the rival of Antioch and Rome. There the religious life of Palestine and the intellectual culture of Greece commingled and prepared the way for the first school of theology which aimed at a philosophic comprehension and vindication of the truths of revelation.
The school became the oldest centre for sacred sciences in the history of Christianity. In it the first system of Christian theology was formed and the allegorical method of biblical exegesis was devised. The most renowned intellectual institution in the early Christian world was undoubtedly the Catechetical School of Alexandria.
But the North African school was not just geographically isolated, but also linguistically and culturally isolated. In terms of language, all the other schools natively spoke Greek, the language in which the New Testament was written. Because of this, they were able to interpret the biblical texts according to their natural original meanings, without needing translation. In contrast, the North African school had Latin as its native tongue. In general, its members therefore had to rely on translations, or less than perfect understandings of the foreign Greek language of the New Testament.
Culturally, most of the schools approached the biblical texts with a Greek philosophical and metaphysical mindset, whereas the North African school interpreted the texts from a Roman legal perspective. According to Beecher, one of the most striking characteristics of the Latin-speaking North African school is “the fact that their theology was developed by them under the influence of the great system of Roman law, to which they had access in the Latin language" (Beecher 1878).
Jerome records that the Christian School of Alexandria was founded by St Mark himself and the first appointed manager appointed by Mark was Justus, who later became the 6th bishop of Alexandria.
Chronological list of Deans
Justus (62-118)
Eumenius (118-129)
Markianos (129-152)
Pantaenus (181-190)
Clement of Alexandria (190-202)
Origen (203-?)
Heraclas (?-231)
Thaugust (3rd Century)
Peros (4th Century)
Achillas (4th Century)
Peter (4th Century)
Serapion (4th Century)
Macarius (4th Century)
Didymus the Blind (340-391)