At the First Synod of Tyre in AD 335, they brought accusations against Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, the primary opponent of Arius ; after this, Constantine had Athanasius banished, since he considered him an impediment to reconciliation.

Constantius used his power to exile bishops adhering to the Nicene creed, especially St Athanasius of Alexandria, who fled to Rome.

* Athanasius of Alexandria, History of the Arians Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII

Athanasius the bishop of Alexandria wrote about the connections between the Ark and the Virgin Mary: " O noble Virgin, truly you are greater than any other greatness.

A medieval account credited Athanasius of Alexandria, the famous defender of Nicene theology, as the author of the Creed.

His views were condemned in a Synod at Alexandria, under Athanasius of Alexandria, in 362, and later subdivided into several different heresies, the main ones of which were the Polemians and the Antidicomarianites.

Athanasius of Alexandria () ( b. ca.

296-298 – d. 2 May 373 ), also referred to as St. Athanasius the Great, St. Athanasius I of Alexandria, St Athanasius the Confessor and ( primarily in the Coptic Orthodox Church ) St Athanasius the Apostolic, was the 20th bishop of Alexandria.

St Athanasius was born in the city of Alexandria or possibly the nearby Nile Delta town of Damanhur ca.

It was from St. Alexander of Alexandria, Bishop of Alexandria, 312 – 328, himself an Origenist, that St Athanasius received his main instruction.

On the death of Emperor Constantine I, Athanasius was allowed to return to his See of Alexandria.

During this time, Gregory of Cappadocia was installed as the Patriarch of Alexandria, usurping the absent Athanasius.

This council confirmed the decision of the earlier Roman synod, and clearly indicated that the participants saw St Athanasius as the lawful Patriarch of Alexandria.

In 346, following the death of Gregory, Constans used his influence to allow Athanasius to return to Alexandria.

The term “ Arian ” bestowed by Athanasius upon his opponents in the Christological debate was polemical.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

Antipope Felix II was installed as Pope in 355 after the Emperor Constantius II banished the reigning Pope, Liberius, for refusing to subscribe the sentence of condemnation against Saint Athanasius.

This traditional attribution of the Creed to Athanasius was first called into question in 1642 by Dutch Protestant theologian G. J.

Voss, and it has since been widely accepted by modern scholars that the creed was not authored by Athanasius.

# The creed originally was most likely written in Latin, while Athanasius composed in Greek.

He was known as " Athanasius Contra Mundum ".

He sent for the children and, in the investigation that followed, it was discovered that one of the boys ( none other than Athanasius ) had acted the part of the bishop and in that character had actually baptized several of his companions in the course of their play.

Athanasius himself was accused of mistreating Arians and the followers of Meletius of Lycopolis, and had to answer those charges at a gathering of bishops in Tyre, the First Synod of Tyre, in 335.

At that meeting, Athanasius was accused of threatening to interfere with the supply of grains from Egypt, and, without any kind of formal trial, was exiled by Constantine to Trier in the Rhineland.

Athanasius went to Rome, where he was under the protection of Constans, the Emperor of the West.

He called a synod in Rome in the year 341 to address the matter, and at that meeting Athanasius was found to be innocent of all the charges raised against him.

At this great gathering of prelates the case of Athanasius was taken up and once more his innocence reaffirmed.

The persecution against the orthodox party broke out with renewed vigor, and Constantius II was induced to prepare drastic measures against Athanasius and the priests who were devoted to him.

By Athanasius ' own account ( Athanasius, Epistola ad Constantinum ), he believed Frumentius the most suitable person for the job and consecrated him as bishop, traditionally in the year 328, or according to others, between 340-346.

The 17th-century Jesuit, Athanasius Kircher, thought that the Chinese had also descended from Ham, via Egyptians.

While he thus closely followed the two great Alexandrians, Origen and Athanasius, in exegesis and Christology respectively, his work shows many traces of vigorous independent thought.

This continued a line of thought started by Athanasius who felt that any means was justified in repressing the Arian belief.

It was previously thought that Froberger went to study under Giacomo Carissimi, but recent research shows that he most probably studied with Athanasius Kircher in Rome.

He was apparently very highly thought of for his work in Greek philosophy and theological science, as Athanasius of Alexandria later described him by the honorific " Achillas the Great ".

During the Renaissance the German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher gave a fanciful allegorical " decipherment " of hieroglyphs, and Egypt was thought of as a source of ancient mystic or occult wisdom.

" Not long after this ," adds the same authority, Bishop Alexander " invited Athanasius to be his commensal and secretary.

Athanasius did, however, remain in contact with his people through his annual Festal Letters, in which he also announced on which date Easter would be celebrated that year.

Pope Julius I wrote to the supporters of Arius strongly urging the reinstatement of Athanasius, but that effort proved to be in vain.

Athanasius was not what would be called a speculative theologian.

They are identical except that Athanasius includes the Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah and places the Book of Esther among the " 7 books not in the canon but to be read " along with the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach ( Ecclesiasticus ), Judith, Tobit, the Didache, and the Shepherd of Hermas.

It cannot be claimed, beyond all doubt, whether any or all of these specific allegations were true, but Rubenstein suggests that Athanasius employed a level of force when it suited his cause or personal interests.

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.

Derived from Greek oikoumenikos (), " ecumenical " means " worldwide " but generally is assumed to be limited to the Roman Empire in this context as in Augustus ' claim to be ruler of the oikoumene / world ; the earliest extant uses of the term for a council are Eusebius ' Life of Constantine 3. 6 around 338, which states "" ( he convoked an Ecumenical Council ); Athanasius ' Ad Afros Epistola Synodica in 369 ;< ref >

Even during numerous exiles, Athanasius continued to be a vigorous defender of Nicene Christianity against Arianism.

Julius, after expressing an opinion favourable to Athanasius, adroitly invited both parties to lay the case before a synod to be presided over by himself.

It has been noted that the Greek term " homoousian " or " con-substantial ", which Athanasius of Alexandria favoured, was actually a term reported to be put forth by Sabellius, and was a term that many followers of Athanasius were uneasy about.

He also investigated the use of lenses as projectors and should be credited as the earliest inventor, developer and designer of the Magic Lantern rather than German scholar Athanasius Kircher who merely used much of Huygens research ( often quite inaccurately ) to document and publish on the subject.

His first recorded act was, after a synod had been held at Rome, to write to Emperor Constantius II, then in quarters at Arles ( 353 – 354 ), asking that a council might be called at Aquileia with reference to the affairs of Athanasius of Alexandria, but his messenger Vincentius of Capua was compelled by the emperor at a conciliabulum held in Arles to subscribe against his will to a condemnation of the orthodox patriarch of Alexandria.

An agreement was struck whereby the Jacobites were to return to the Imperial Church on the basis of the single energy doctrine, and Athanasius was to be made Patriarch of Antioch.

This was adopted by Origen and later on by Athanasius, and applied to the generation of the Son from the Father, because they believed that this analogy could be used to support the notion that the Father, as immutable, always had been a Father, and that the generation of the Son is therefore eternal and timeless.

* Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria ( about 296 — 373 ), also stated his belief in deification by saying as follows :" The Word was made flesh in order that we might be made gods.

" Athanasius also observed :" He became man that men might be made gods.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer echoed the convictions of Athanasius when he wrote " He became like human beings, so that we would be like him "

This passage is entirely in irregular verse, and seems to be a direct quotation or a compilation of quotations ; it may have been written by someone other than Athanasius, perhaps even a person sympathetic to Arius.

* Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria ( about 296 — 373 ), also stated his belief in literal deification by saying as follows :" The Word was made flesh in order that we might be made gods.

" Athanasius also observed :" He became man that men might be made gods.