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 Athanasius of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a troparion (hymn) to St. Athanasius sung in some Orthodox churches.
In about 319, when Athanasius was a deacon, a presbyter named Arius began teaching that there was a time before God the Father begat Jesus when the latter did not exist.
298–May 2, 373) was a Christian bishop, the Patriarch of Alexandria, in the fourth century.
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 The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Athanasius
Athanasius attended the Council of Nicaea (325) and shortly thereafter became bishop of Alexandria (328).
Athanasius now in the first place enumerates the scriptures of the Old Testament.
It was an ancient custom for the bishop of Alexandria to write, if possible, every year soon after Epiphany a so-called Festal Epistle to the Egyptian churches and monasteries under his authority, in which he informed them of the date of Easter and the beginning of the Lenten fast.
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