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