* 1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.

Nothing is securely known of Chariton beyond what he states in his novel, which introduces him as " Chariton of Aphrodisias, secretary of the rhetor Athenagoras ".

Athenagoras is also the title of a 1682 biography of Athenagoras of Athens by British theologian John Fell.

Philip of Side claims that Athenagoras headed the Catechetical School of Alexandria ( which is probably incorrect ) and notes that Athenagoras converted to Christianity after initially familiarizing himself with the Scriptures in an attempt to controvert them.

There are reasons to think that De resurrectione is not by Athenagoras but by some 4th-century author, e. g. the use of at least one term ( ἀγαλματοφορέω ) coined by Philo of Alexandria and not widely known before the time of Origen.

The allusion is perpetuated in the writings of the early Fathers, such as Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, Ignatius of Antioch, Athenagoras of Athens and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.

Patriarch Athenagoras was born on into an Albanian, Aromanian or Greek family as Aristocles Spyrou in Vasiliko, near Ioannina, Epirus ( then Ottoman Empire ).

When Archbishop Athenagoras assumed his new position on February 24, 1931, he was faced with the task of bringing unity and harmony to a diocese that was racked with dissension between Royalists and Republicans ( Venizelists ), who had virtually divided the country into separate dioceses.

The name " Chariton ", which means " man of graces ", has been considered a pseudonym chosen to suit the romantic content of his writing, but both " Chariton " and " Athenagoras " occur as names on inscriptions from Aphrodisias.

He had a high reputation as a Grecian, a Latinist and a philologist, and he brought out with the collaboration of others his an edition of St Cyprian in 1682, an English translation of The Unity of the Church in 1681, editions of Nemesius of Emesa ( 1671 ), of Aratus and of Eratosthenes ( 1672 ), Theocritus ( 1676 ), Alcinous on Plato ( 1677 ), St Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians ( 1677 ), Athenagoras ( 1682 ), Clemens Alexandrinus ( 1683 ), Theophilus of Antioch ( 1684 ), Grammatica rationis sive institutiones logicae ( 1673 and 1685 ), and a critical edition of the New Testament in 1675.

Jacques Forget ( 1910 ) in the Catholic Encyclopedia article " Holy Ghost " notes that " Among the apologists, Athenagoras mentions the Holy Ghost along with, and on the same plane as, the Father and the Son.

The early Christians are the first on record as having pronounced abortion to be the murder of human beings, for their public apologists, Athenagoras, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix ( Eschbach, " Disp.

Athenagoras I (), born Aristocles Spyrou (; – July 7, 1972 ) was the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972.

A major event of the Second Vatican Council, known as Vatican II, was the issuance by Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of a joint expression of regret for many of the past actions that had led up to the Great Schism between the Western and Eastern churches, expressed as the Catholic-Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965.

A major event of the final days of the council was the act of Pope Paul and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of a joint expression of regret for many of the past actions that had led up to the Great Schism between the western and eastern churches.

** In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the 15th century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I meet in Jerusalem.

Ecumenical dialogue over the past 43 years since Paul VI's meeting with the Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I has awoken the nearly 1000-year hopes for Christian unity.

Returning from a fact-finding trip to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in America in 1930, Metropolitan Damaskinos recommended to Patriarch Photios II that he appoint Metropolitan Athenagoras to the position of Archbishop of North and South America as the best person to bring harmony to the American diocese.

* Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute

The ceremony was held at the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Luke, Stanley Fort, Hong Kong, with Metropolitan Athenagoras of Panama representing the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

In Greece, he encountered an Ionian theologian, who has been identified as Athenagoras of Athens ; while in the east, he was taught by an Assyrian, sometimes identified with Tatian, and a Jew, who was possibly Theophilus of Caesarea.

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

* 1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.

* 1972 – Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople ( b. 1886 )

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

* 1886 – Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* March 25 – Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* Athenagoras of Athens, a Christian apologist ( d. 190 )

In 1965, those excommunications are rescinded by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras when they meet in the Second Vatican Council.

Works of Athenagoras, Aristotle, and Aeschylus appeared in 1557 ; Diodorus Siculus, 1559 ; Xenophon, 1561 ; Sextus Empiricus, 1562 ; Thucydides, 1564 ; Herodotus, both 1566 and 1581 ; and Sophocles, in 1568.

Since the lifting of excommunications during the Paul VI and Athenagoras I meeting in Jerusalem there have been other significant meetings between Popes and Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople.

Athenagoras of Athens, Cicero, and other ancient writers cite that it was for this crime ( among others ) that Diagoras received the death penalty ; the tragic playwright Aeschylus was allegedly tried for revealing secrets of the Mysteries in some of his plays, but was acquitted.

After returning to Istanbul in 1968, he took a position at the Patriarchal Theological Seminary of Halki, where he was ordained a priest in 1969, by Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I.

Upon graduating he was tonsured a monk, given the name Athenagoras, and ordained to the diaconate.

Athenagoras in the ruins of a church after the Istanbul Pogrom.

In 1938, Athenagoras was naturalized as a United States citizen.

St Albert's feast day is celebrated on November 15.

* 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church he is also considered a saint, his feast day being celebrated on 15 June .< ref >

Pope Gregory VII canonized Ælfheah in 1078, with a feast day of 19 April.

In the late medieval period, Ælfheah's feast day was celebrated in Scandinavia, perhaps because of the saint's connection with Cnut.

The feast day of Titus was not included in the Tridentine Calendar.

In 1969, the Roman Catholic Church assigned the feast to 26 January so as to celebrate the two disciples of Paul, Titus and Timothy, on the day after the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

The feast day of the Roman martyr Felix is 29 July.

Her feast day, December 16, is still kept in many German dioceses.

His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church falls on 17 March.

Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

His feast day is observed on 2 May, the day of his death.

After the end of the official celebration, the day ended in a huge four-day popular feast and people celebrated with fireworks, as well as fine wine and running naked through the streets in order to display their great freedom.

On 14 July 1879, another feast took place, with a semi-official aspect ; the events of the day included a reception in the Chamber of Deputies, organised and presided over by Léon Gambetta, a military review in Longchamp, and a Republican Feast in the Pré Catelan.

The feast day of Barnabas is celebrated on June 11.

In Ireland – when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a non-movable public holiday on 26 December.

The latest biography of Khmelnytsky by Smoliy and Stepankov, however, challenges the 27 December date and suggests that it is more likely he was born on 9 November ( feast day of St Zenoby ,< ref >

A Venerable has as of yet no feast day, no churches may be built in his or her honor, and the church has made no statement on the person's probable or certain presence in heaven, but prayer cards and other materials may be printed to encourage the faithful to pray for a miracle wrought by his or her intercession as a sign of God's will that the person be canonized.

A feast day will be designated, but its observance is normally restricted to the Blessed's home diocese, to certain locations associated with him or her, and / or to the churches or houses of the blessed's religious order, if they belonged to one.

The saint is assigned a feast day which may be celebrated anywhere within the Catholic Church, although it may or may not appear on the general calendar or local calendars as an obligatory feast, parish churches may be built in his or her honor, and the faithful may freely and without restriction celebrate and honor the saint.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Church celebrate his feast day on 9 June and also, together with Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria, on 18 January.