Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius.
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Alexander of Alexandria
Alexander of Alexandria
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Alexander of Alexandria (died 328 CE) served as bishop of Alexandria from around 313 CE, succeeding Achillas, and is chiefly remembered for his early and decisive opposition to the Alexandrian priest Arius, whose teaching that the Son was a created being Alexander condemned at a local synod around 318–320 CE. He led the Egyptian delegation to the First Council of Nicaea in 325, where Arianism was formally rejected and the Nicene Creed was formulated. His deacon and eventual successor, Athanasius, carried on his theological legacy. Alexander died in Alexandria in April 328 CE, approximately three years after the Council of Nicaea.
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Stop 1 of 2250–328Bishop, Lifelong Ministry
AlexandriaEgypt
What they did here
Alexander spent virtually his entire life and episcopal career in Alexandria, becoming bishop around 313 CE upon the death of Achillas; he convened the local synod (~318–320) that first condemned Arius and his teaching before the matter reached the ecumenical council.
Alexandria in this era
Under Roman imperial rule, Alexandria hosted the Catechetical School (Didascaleion), where Clement and then Origen turned the city into early Christianity's foremost theological workshop, pioneering allegorical Scripture interpretation and systematic theology in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries.
About Alexandria
Alexandria is the main Mediterranean port of northern Egypt and the country's second city. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, it became the capital of the Ptolemies, whose Museum and Great Library made it the leading centre of Hellenistic learning. It also held one of the largest Jewish communities of antiquity, where the Greek Bible translation known as the Septuagint was produced and Philo wrote. Church tradition traces its patriarchate to Mark the Evangelist, and its catechetical school was led by Clement and Origen. Arab forces under Amr ibn al-As took the city in 641, and it remained a commercial and scholarly hub of the Islamic world; the Sufi master Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari was born there.
In Alexandria at the same time
Antony of Egypt, Arius, Athanasius of Alexandria, St., Peter of Alexandria
Across the traditions, in Alexandria at the same time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Alexander of Alexandria’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Antony of Egypt, Arius, Eusebius of Caesarea, Athanasius of Alexandria, St., Peter of Alexandria