Athanasius Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria

296–373

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Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296–373), also called Athanasius the Great, was a Christian theologian and the 20th patriarch of Alexandria. A Church Father and the chief proponent of Trinitarianism against Arianism, he was a noted Egyptian Christian leader of the fourth century whose intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years, including five exiles ordered by four different Roman emperors. His writings appear in Athanasius, a volume in the Classics of Western Spirituality series.

Born

296

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Classics of Western Spirituality