His earlier work proved influential in setting up in the Anglican Church of Australiawith non-territorial jurisdictions. Cultural bishops

 

 

More recently he has focused upon the creation of a monarch bishop at Rome in the late second and early third centuries, emerging from the events surrounding the dispute between Callistus and the Hippolytan School. Not only has his thesis implications for the origin of the Papacy, but also the dispute over how modern the new liturgical rites are that were developed as part of the Ecumenical dialogue of the second half of the last century. Further discussion. The rediscovered and reconstructed Hippolytan Apostolic tradition was used as the basis for the new Rites of Vatican II that transplanted those of Trent, and disputes about that text has ecumenical implication. Further discussion.

His publications fall under the main headings listed in the yellow boxes

 

Allen Brent was born in the east end of London at the outbreak of the  second world war and was educated in the universities of Cambridge and London in the nineteen sixties. Early Life

Allen Brent is convenor of the Second National Patristic Conference to be held in Cambridge 9-11 September, 2009, at the Faculty of Divinity, with residential places available in Selwyn College Cambridge. Details. Patristic conference

His most recent books at present in press are a political history of early Christianity and a study of Cyprian in the context of Roman society and law particularly represented by third century Carthage in North Africa. See

Allen Brent, spent the longest and most productive period of his career as Associate Professor in History, at James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia. Australian Biography.

He is now, in retirement in Cambridge, an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge where he teaches Early Christian History. Recently he was awarded the senior higher doctorate of Cambridge University, the Doctor of Divinity (D.D.). His contribution to the Faculty is best summed up in its formal submission of his work published by the RAE (2009), and in the Faculty's profile of general staff contributions.