AD30

Nonprofit

The faith of the early Church, in the hands of Christians today.

AD30 builds and keeps works of Christian scholarship for ordinary readers: the Scriptures, the Fathers who first explained them, and the tools to read the two together.

Whose words we carry

Nine of them, out of many. They wrote in the first five centuries after the Church began, and most Christians today have never read a page of them.

  • Ignatius of Antioch
    Ignatius of Antioch
  • Antony the Great
    Antony the Great
  • Athanasius of Alexandria
    Athanasius of Alexandria
  • Ephrem the Syrian
    Ephrem the Syrian
  • Basil the Great
    Basil the Great
  • Gregory of Nazianzus
    Gregory of Nazianzus
  • Gregory of Nyssa
    Gregory of Nyssa
  • John Chrysostom
    John Chrysostom
  • Cyril of Alexandria
    Cyril of Alexandria

Iconography as their own tradition wrote them.

Our work

Catena

Live · since 2015

The Scriptures with the commentary of the Church Fathers, verse by verse.

70,000+
verse commentaries
2015
reading since
iOS · Android · web
wherever you read

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The Catena reader open at John 1, with the chapter in the reading typeface

“So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.”

1 Corinthians 3:7

Who we are

AD30 began in 2015 in Ontario, Canada, among a group of Coptic Orthodox Christians who wanted to deepen their own reading of the Bible and found that what they needed did not exist in a form anyone could carry.

What exists now is built and kept by fellow Christian laborers: engineers, designers, editors and servants scattered across the world who give their free time to it. We ask for your prayers more than for our names.

Lend a hand

The work is carried by volunteers and paid for by donors. If you would like to help build it, we would love to hear from you.