# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arius
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:01:57.916Z

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name: "Arius"
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description: "A fourth-century presbyter whose argument with his bishop accidentally lit a theological wildfire that split Christianity for centuries — though historians now say he barely mattered himself, just the spark."
tagline: "Cyrenaic presbyter and founder of Arianism (died 336)"
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deathDate: "336"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Arius was a Cyrenaic presbyter and ascetic who lived from around 250 to 336. His theology held that Jesus Christ was created by God the Father before all else, the true Firstborn, not coeternal with the Father — a view called radical subordinationism. When he clashed with his bishop, the dispute exploded into what became the Arian Controversy, though the opposing camps had already formed and the fight was inevitable. Constantine convened the First Council of Nicaea in 325 to resolve the fracture; Arianism was condemned and opposition to it hardened into the Nicene Creed, written as "a deliberately anti-Arian document." Still, Arian churches survived for centuries across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa before military conquest and royal conversions stamped them out between the fifth and seventh centuries. Modern historians argue Arius wasn't the founder of the theology named for him — he was, as Richard Hanson put it, "the spark that started the explosion" but "in himself of no great significance."