A noted ecclesiastical historian, he died in post.

Michael John Brenan, priest and ecclesiastical historian (died 1847).

Henry Soames (1785-1860) was an English clergyman and ecclesiastical historian.

In 1650 the assembly of the French clergy commissioned him to publish the ecclesiastical historians, after Mons.

Gibson has been described as 'one of that school of ecclesiastical historians.

September 22 - Pedro de Ribadeneira, ecclesiastical historian (born 1527)

In addition to his clerical work, he was a respected ecclesiastical historian.

Thomas Lathbury (1798 - 1865) was an English cleric known as an ecclesiastical historian.

John Dowden (1840 - 1910) was an Irish cleric and ecclesiastical historian.

Sulpicius Severus, an ecclesiastical historian of the late 4th and early 5th centuries.