Matthew

Apostle and Evangelist. His Gospel is listed first among the four Gospels in the Tridentine canon.

Preliminaries

• DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV). — His Gospel listed first among the four Gospels

  "the four Gospels, according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John"

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Named as one of the four evangelists, the "four-horse chariot of the Lord and the true Cherubim"

  "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John -- the four-horse chariot of the Lord and the true Cherubim"