The most likely time frame is in the late fifth or early sixth century AD – at least 100 years after Athanasius.

Athanasius is counted as one of the four Great Doctors of the Church in the Roman Catholic Church as well as one of the Great Doctors of the Church in Eastern Orthodoxy, where he is also labeled the " Father of Orthodoxy ".

St Athanasius ' year of birth is given anywhere from 296-298 or in 293.

However, in Coptic literature, St Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.

The relic of St Athanasius the Great of Alexandria is currently preserved under the new Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Deir El-Anba Rowais, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt.

The following is a troparion ( hymn ) to St Athanasius sung in some Eastern Orthodox churches.

Athanasius is venerated as a saint by the majority of major Christian denominations which officially recognize saints.

St Gregory Nazianzen, fellow Doctor of the Church, 330-390, said in Or. 21: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.

This biography depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is synonymous with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

In Coptic literature, St. Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

St Athanasius is also the first person to identify the same 27 books of the New Testament that are in use today.

Because Athanasius ' canon is the closest canon of any of the Church Fathers to the canon used by Protestant churches today, many Protestants point to Athanasius as the father of the canon.

While Alexander had been priming Athanasius to assume the bishopric after his death, it is said, he was not unanimously supported, and questions of his age ( the minimum age to become a bishop was thirty, and questions remain to this day whether he was yet that old ).

However, there are also many modern historians who object to this view and point out that such a hostile attitude towards Athanasius is based on an unfair judgment of historical sources.

21 with: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.

St Cyril of Alexandria, 370-444, In the first letter says: " Athanasius is one who can be trusted: he would not say anything that is not in accord with sacred scripture.

Written in Greek around 360 by Athanasius of Alexandria, it depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is in harmony with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

Athanasius writes, " For monks, the life of Anthony is a sufficient example of asceticism.

He was one of the most venerated ascetics of the Nitrian Desert, and Saint Athanasius mentions him in his life of Saint Anthony.

Many Christian denominations revere Athanasius as a Saint, teacher, and father.

* Christian Cyclopedia: Athanasius

According to Athanasius, the devil fought St. Anthony by afflicting him with boredom, laziness, and the phantoms of women, which he overcame by the power of prayer, providing a theme for Christian art.

The Creed, which is now recited throughout the Christian world, was based largely on the teaching put forth by a man who eventually would become Pope Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, the chief opponent of Arius.

The Jewish historian Josephus speaks of there being 22 books in the canon of the Hebrew Bible, a Jewish tradition reported also by the Christian bishop Athanasius.

In Highview there pertains two Major private schools St. Athanasius a Catholic School and Whitefield Academy a Christian School.

Scholars have speculated that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius who for the first time declared a strict canon of Christian scripture.

The canonical Christian Bible was formally established by Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem in 350 ( although it had been generally accepted by the church previously ), confirmed by the Council of Laodicea in 363 ( both lacked the book of Revelation ), and later established by Athanasius of Alexandria in 367 ( with Revelation added ), and Jerome's Vulgate Latin translation dates to between AD 382 and 420.

4th century ), often referred to as " Antony the Great ", is perhaps the most renowned of all the very early Christian hermits owing to the biography by his friend Athanasius of Alexandria.

The disciples of Cyril and Methodius, among whom Clement of Ohrid, Naum and Constantine of Preslav, continued their educational work in Bulgaria, actively translating Christian texts, such as the Bible and the works of John Chrysostom, Basil of Caesarea, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Athanasius of Alexandria, as well as historic chronicles such as these of John Malalas and George Hamartolus, to Bulgarian.

Athanasius Emmert of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, Fr.

Alexandria became the centre of the first great split in the Christian world, between the Arians, named for the Alexandrian priest Arius, and their opponents, represented by Athanasius, who became Archbishop of Alexandria in 326 after the First Council of Nicaea rejected Arius's views.

The Eastern Christian tradition speaks of this transformation in terms of theosis or divinization, perhaps best summed up by an ancient aphorism usually attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria: " God became human so that man might become god.

Such Christian luminaries as Ambrose, Jerome, Martin of Tours and Athanasius of Alexandria spent time in Augusta Treverorum.

Through them he now had the principal masterpieces of Greek and Syrian Christian literature translated, e. g. the writings of Athanasius of Alexandria, Cyril of Jerusalem, Basil, the two Gregorys ( Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa ), John Chrysostom, Ephrem the Syrian, etc.

Statue of the saint in St Athanasius ' Roman Catholic Church in Evanston, Illinois.

Jerome's version of the Life of St Anthony the Great, the hermit monk of Egypt, written by Athanasius of Alexandria, was widely disseminated in the Middle Ages ; it relates Anthony's encounter with a centaur, who challenged the saint but was forced to admit that the old gods had been overthrown.

In Beowulf, the titular character battles against Grendel and his mother, while the saint, such as Athanasius ’ Anthony ( one of the original sources for the hagiographic motif ) or the character of Guthlac, battles against figures no less substantial in a spiritual sense.

The building project, according to the biography of saint Athanasius ( 11th century ), began with the protective wall and continued to the church and cells.

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.

Browne's eldest son Edward visited the famous scholar Athanasius Kircher, founder of the Museo Kircherano at Rome in 1667, whose exhibits included an engine for attempting perpetual motion and a speaking head, which Kircher called his Oraculum Delphinium.

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.

Besides Athanasius, Menander, and others, whose works are lost, we must mention especially Sopater of Apamea, who is probably the author of the Greek Prolegomena to the orations of Aristides, and also of some among the Scholia on Aristides, which contain a great many things of importance for mythology, history, and antiquities.

Among the persons whose writings form the basis for Patristics, i. e. prominent early Church Fathers, are Justin Martyr ( c. 100-c. 165 ), Irenaeus of Lyons ( c. 120-c. 202 ), Clement of Alexandria ( c. 150-c. 215 ), Tertullian ( c. 160-c. 225 ), Origen ( c. 185-c. 254 ), Cyprian of Carthage ( d. 258 ), Athanasius ( c. 296-c. 373 ), Gregory of Nazianzus ( 329-389 ), Basil of Caesarea ( c. 330-379 ), Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 330-c. 395 ) Theodore of Mopsuestia ( c. 350-428 ), Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 ), Pelagius, Vincent of Lérins ( d. bef.