The Oriental Orthodox Churches, distinguished by their Miaphysite beliefs consist of the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ( whose Patriarch, is considered first among equals for the following churches ), as well as the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Church, the Indian Orthodox Church, and the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch.

Didymus the Blind ( alternatively spelled Dedimus or Didymous ) ( c. 313 – 398 ) was a Coptic Church theologian of Alexandria, whose famous Catechetical School he led for about half a century.

The Alexandria Township Education Foundation, is a non-profit organization established in 1997, whose mission is to help achieve and maintain an extra margin of excellence by employing private resources to supplement traditional school district funding.

Promethea was a young girl whose father was killed by a Christian mob in Alexandria in AD 411.

In 410 Synesius, whose Christianity had until then been by no means very pronounced, was popularly chosen to be bishop of Ptolemais, and, after long hesitation on personal and doctrinal grounds, he ultimately accepted the office thus thrust upon him, being consecrated by Theophilus at Alexandria.

* In the future depicted in Brian Stableford's " The Halcyon Drift ", one of the leading planets in the Galaxy is " New Alexandria ", whose inhabitants are dedicated to the preservation and extension of knowledge, and are brought up to regard the destruction of books as the most heinous of deeds.

He also advanced the bold idea of gathering together Maimonides ' defenders and opponents in Alexandria, in order to bring the controversy before a court of Babylonian rabbis, whose decision would be binding on both factions.

In geometry, Heron's ( or Hero's ) formula, named after Heron of Alexandria, states that the area T of a triangle whose sides have lengths a, b, and c is

After the introduction of Christianity, Phasis was a seat of a Greek diocese, one of whose bishops, Cyrus, became a Patriarch of Alexandria between 630 and 641 AD.

One of the epigrams attributed to him on the authority of Maximus Planudes is a eulogy on the celebrated Hypatia, daughter of Theon of Alexandria, whose death took place in 415.

At the urging of Basil of Caesarea, Meletius wrote to Saint Athanasius, who however continued to support the Eustathians, and whose successor, Saint Peter of Alexandria, together with Pope Damasus I suspected Meletius of Arianism.

When that calendar was revised in 1969, the individual celebrations of St Barbara, St Catherine of Alexandria, St Christopher, and St Margaret of Antioch were dropped, but in 2004 Pope John Paul II reinstated the 25 November optional memorial of Catherine of Alexandria, whose voice was heard by Saint Joan of Arc.

In 1875, Nelson introduced a bill – the Upper Country bill – that gave SP & P added incentives in the form of land to complete the line, but also imposed a deadline after which the rights to build the railroad were forfeited, presumably in favor of Northern Pacific, whose plans would bypass Alexandria.

Taking advantage of the sickness of Gregory, and supported by some Egyptian ecclesiastics, sent by Peter II, Patriarch of Alexandria, under whose directions they professed to act, Maximus was ordained, during the night, Patriarch of Constantinople, in the place of Gregory, whose election had not been perfectly canonical.

Certain Non-Chalcedonians, such as John Niciota, Patriarch of Alexandria, whose name he had inserted in the diptychs, at first stood aloof from him, because, though he accepted the Henotikon, he did not reject the Council of Chalcedon, and for the same reason Flavian II of Antioch and Elias of Jerusalem at first communicated with him.

Rabbula became a friend of Cyril of Alexandria, with whom he corresponded, and whose treatise De recta fide he translated into Syriac.

* The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography ( Helicon Publishing, 2004 ) " Pappus of Alexandria ( lived c. AD 200-350 ) Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose chief importance lies in his commentaries on the mathematical work of his predecessors.

Achilles Tatius ( in Greek Ἀχιλλεύς Τάτιος ) of Alexandria was a Roman era Greek writer whose fame is attached to his only surviving work, the ancient Greek novel or romance The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon.

Baldwin memorialized his victory by erecting a Benedictine monastery on the battlefield, dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria, whose feast day fell on the day of the battle.

Saint Athanasius of Alexandria ( whose Life of Saint Anthony the Great set the pattern for monastic hagiography ), Saint Jerome, and other anonymous compilers were also responsible for setting down very influential accounts.

In 1829 he cruised in the Black Sea, and in 1831 was appointed to command of the frigate HMS Madagascar, whose previous captain, Sir Robert Spencer, had died at Alexandria.

Fab., I, 6 ) held this view of them, and identified them with the licentious sects whose practices are described by Clement of Alexandria.

In defense of his action to ordain, Wesley himself cited an ancient opinion from the Church of Alexandria, which held that that bishops and presbyters constituted one order and therefore, bishops are to be elected from and by the presbyterate.

* Julius Saturninus, governor of Syria, is in Alexandria charged with the defense of the East.

Josephus's Contra Apion is a wide-ranging defense of Judaism against many charges laid against Judaism at that time, as too are some of the works of Philo of Alexandria.

As a result of the riots, an ultimatum was sent to the Egyptian government demanding they order Urabi's officers in Alexandria to dismantle their coast defense batteries.

This title was given to St. Cyril I, the Great ( the 24th Archbishop of Alexandria ) in memory of his heroic defense against the Nestorian Heresy and his defense of the Title of “ Theotokos ," attributed to the Most Holy Virgin Mary, to establish the correct theological and dogmatic explanation of the Orthodox belief in the True and undivided Divine and Human Natures of the only Son of God Incarnate, which is masterly articulated in: ( Μια Φυσις τоυ Θεоυ Λογου Σεσαρκουμενε ).

In 321, Arius was denounced by a synod at Alexandria for teaching a heterodox view of the relationship of Jesus to God the Father.

All the produce of the monks ' labour was committed to him, and by him shipped to Alexandria.

He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.

He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and was a native of Pleuron in Aetolia, although he spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the Tragic Pleiad.

He had an office in the Library of Alexandria, and was commissioned by Ptolemy to make a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant.

Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

He was a pupil of Proclus in Athens, and taught at Alexandria for most of his life, writing commentaries on Plato, Aristotle, and other philosophers.

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism.

Later Christian writers stated that Ammonius was a Christian, but it is now generally assumed that there was a different Ammonius of Alexandria who wrote biblical texts.

In his twenty-eighth year he felt the impulse to study philosophy and was recommended to the teachers in Alexandria who then had the highest reputation ; but he came away from their lectures so depressed and full of sadness that he told his trouble to one of his friends.

Shirkuh negotiated for peace and Alexandria was handed over to Amalric.

Latin translation of Abū Maʿshar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus (‘ Of the great Conjunction ( astronomy and astrology ) | conjunctions ’), Venice, 1515. Astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars following the collapse of Alexandria to the Arabs in the 7th century, and the founding of the Abbasid empire in the 8th.

Athanasius of Alexandria was traditionally thought to be the author of the Athanasian Creed, and gives his name to its common title.

Ambrose of Alexandria ( before 212 – c. 250 ) was a friend of the Christian theologian Origen.

Ambrose was attracted by Origen's fame as a teacher, and visited the Catechetical School of Alexandria in 212.

Charles Corydon Hall, a New England engineer, arrived in Alexandria to help manage a steel mill just as its natural gas supply was exhausted around the turn of the 19th century.

Alexandria was founded in 1836 and was chartered as a city in 1893.

Its name was changed by Lysimachus to Alexandria Troas, in memory of Alexander III of Macedon ( Pliny merely states that the name changed from Antigonia to Alexandria ).