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Alexander of Constantinople (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος; c. 241 – 337) was bishop of Byzantium from 314 [1] and the first bishop of Constantinople from 330 [2] (the city was renamed during his episcopacy in 330). Scholars consider most of the available information on Alexander to be legendary.
Alexander (314–330), also first bishop of Constantinople; ... First bishop of Constantinople 28 St. Paul I the Confessor: 337 – 339 (2 years) Deposed and exiled
With the development of the hierarchical structure of the Church, the bishop of Constantinople came to be styled as exarch (a position superior to metropolitan). Constantinople was recognized as the fourth patriarchate at the First Council of Constantinople in 381, after Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome. The patriarch was usually appointed by Antioch.
Eustathius of Antioch was deposed and exiled in 330. Athanasius, who had succeeded Alexander as Bishop of Alexandria, was deposed by the First Synod of Tyre in 335, and Marcellus of Ancyra followed him in 336. Arius returned to Constantinople to be readmitted into the Church but died shortly before he could be received.
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (Greek: Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, romanized: Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople and primus inter pares (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches that comprise the Eastern Orthodox Church. The ecumenical patriarch is ...
The early history of the controversy must be pieced together from about 35 documents found in various sources. The Trinitarian historian Socrates of Constantinople reports that Arius first became controversial under the bishop Alexander of Alexandria, when Arius formulated the following syllogism:
Christianity first arrived in western Thrace in at least 161 AD, with the arrival of Saint Glyceria in Traianoupoli.Traianoupoli (near modern day Didymoteicho) [2] served as an important center of early Christians until at least 305 AD, during the Great Persecution in which its first bishop Alexander of Traianoupoli was martyred on orders by Diocletian.
In the 1920s some of them made contact with the so-called African Orthodox Church in the USA (not a part of the canonical community of Eastern Orthodox Churches), notably Daniel William Alexander in South Africa, and Ruben Spartas Mukasa in Uganda. In the 1930s, Daniel William Alexander visited first Uganda, and later Kenya.