<page_title> List of Church Fathers </page_title> <section_title> Until John of Damascus </section_title> <table> <cell> John of Damascus <col_header> Church Father </col_header> </cell> <cell> 749 <col_header> Date of death </col_header> </cell> <cell> Doctor of the Church and author of An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith and ascetic and exegetical writings and hymns; Peter Lombard based his Four Books of Sentences on the works of John of Damascus and Thomas Aquinas based his Summa Theologica on Peter Lombard's Sentences <col_header> Notes </col_header> </cell> </table>
John of Damascus, a Doctor of the Church, died in 749.