Luke the Evangelist (,
Loukãs) is one of the
Four Evangelists—the four authors of
canonical Gospels of
Jesus Christ. Luke was a native of the Hellenistic city of Antioch in Syria. The early church fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the
Gospel according to Luke and the book of
Acts of the Apostles, which originally formed a single literary work, referred to as
Luke–Acts. Prominent figures in early Christianity such as
Jerome and
Eusebius later reaffirmed his authorship, although the fragile evidence of the identity of the author of the works has led to
discussion in scholarly circles, both secular and religious.