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 
Antony the Great Athanasius of Alexandria 
Ephrem the Syrian 
Basil the Great 
Gregory of Nazianzus 
Gregory of Nyssa John Chrysostom 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
- 2018
- app launched
- iOS · Android · web
- wherever you read
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“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
The work 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. AD30 was officially organized as a nonprofit in 2023.
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.