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Scholars debate whether Athanasius' list in 367 formed the basis for later lists. Because Athanasius' canon is the closest canon of any of the Church Fathers to the one used by Protestant churches today, many Protestants point to Athanasius as the Father of the Canon. [50] [52]
Athanasius was involved in the early Christian christological and trinitarian debates, and supported the position of the Council of Nicaea in opposition to that of Arius and his followers. [3] [4] [5] In 328, Athanasius was elected as bishop or patriarch of Alexandria. [6] [7] [8] Alexandria happened to be the city in which Arius was a priest.
Athanasius (Ancient Greek: Ἀθανάσιος, fl. 5th century CE) of Alexandria was a presbyter in that city, and a son of Isidora, the sister of Cyril of Alexandria. At the Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE, he presented a complaint against Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria. [1]
A small portion of the Church of Alexandria followed Chalcedonian Christology, and this is called the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, since it used Greek as its liturgical language. These Greek Chalcedonian believers were loyal to the Eastern Roman Emperor and in communion with the Patriarchs in Rome, Antioch, Constantinople, and Jerusalem.
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.
St. Athanasius I: 14 October 1289 – 16 October 1293 (4 years and 2 days) 140 John XII: 1 January 1294 – 21 June 1303 (9 years, 6 months and 20 days) Resigned (139) St. Athanasius I: 23 June 1303 – c. September 1309 (6 years and a few months) Restored; resigned: 141 Nephon I: 9 May 1310 – 11 April 1314 (3 years, 11 months and 2 days)
By the time Anthony had died in AD 356, thousands of monks and nuns had been drawn to living in the desert following Anthony's example, leading his biographer, Athanasius of Alexandria, to write that "the desert had become a city." [1] The Desert Fathers had a major influence on the development of Christianity.
Athanasius of Alexandria was a theologian, Pope of Alexandria, and a noted Egyptian leader of the 4th century. He is best remembered for his role in the conflict with Arianism. At the First Council of Nicaea, Athanasius argued against the Arian doctrine that Christ is of a distinct substance from the Father. [35]