Athanasius of Alexandria
Pope of Alexandria from 328 to 373 (296-373) · Egypt · Religious Figures · Died at 77
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Something wrong?A fourth-century bishop who spent over 17 years in exile - banished five times by four different Roman emperors - for insisting that the Son of God shares the same substance as the Father. The phrase "Athanasius Against the World" stuck because he kept that position when almost no one else would.
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, For in other matters also which go to make up life, we shall find differences according to circumstances.
Perhaps you marvel, because having determined to speak of the Incarnation of the Logos, we now treat of the beginning of mankind; but this is not foreign to our treatment.
Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
About this person
Born around 296-298, Athanasius entered the fight at 27 as a deacon assisting Bishop Alexander of Alexandria at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, where Constantine had gathered church leaders to settle whether Christ was distinct from or identical in substance with God the Father. Three years later he became patriarch and spent the next 45 years battling Arian churchmen and a succession of emperors - Constantine, Constantius II, Julian the Apostate, Valens - who kept ordering him removed. The exiles piled up; the position didn't move. Within years of his death in 373, Gregory of Nazianzus called him the "Pillar of the Church," and his 367 Easter letter may have been the first to list the 27 books now in the New Testament. He's venerated across traditions as one of the four Great Greek Church Fathers.
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