{"slug": "arius", "label": "Arius", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arius", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106026", "qid": "Q106026", "description": "Cyrenaic presbyter and founder of Arianism (died 336)", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [256, 336], "span_label": ["256 CE", "336 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 5}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "jesus", "label": "Jesus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "nicomedia", "label": "Nicomedia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "eusebius-of-nicomedia", "label": "Eusebius of Nicomedia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "easter", "label": "Easter", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nicene-creed", "label": "Nicene Creed", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iznik", "label": "İznik", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jerusalem", "label": "Jerusalem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bithynia", "label": "Bithynia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 256, "year_label": "256 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Arius, Egyptian priest and founder of Arianism (d. 336)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188385#Births", "title": "256", "revid": 1371188385, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 313, "year_label": "313 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Arius preaches of the human nature of Jesus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330160715#Religion", "title": "313", "revid": 1330160715, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 319, "year_label": "319 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Arius travels to Nicomedia at the invitation of Bishop Eusebius, after having been accused of heresy and condemned by Alexander, the Patriarch of Alexandria. This gives rise to the Arian Controversy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372362353#Religion", "title": "319", "revid": 1372362353, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 323, "year_label": "323 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The poetic work Banquet (Thalia) by the Libyan-born Egyptian Christian priest Arius, age 73, expresses the doctrine that Jesus of Nazareth was not of the same substance as God but rather had a finite nature. As an ascetic, he leads a Christian community near Alexandria, and comes under suspicion of heresy. Arius writes to his former schoolmate Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia, asking for support. Eusebius writes to other bishops, and when Arius is condemned in September, Eusebius gives him safe haven, and sponsors a synod at Bithynia in October, which nullifies Arius's excommunication (see Council of Nicaea).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1336366222#Religion", "title": "323", "revid": 1336366222, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 325, "year_label": "325 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – First Council of Nicaea: Constantine summons an ecumenical council of bishops in Nicaea (Turkey). The Nicene Creed, adopted on June 19, declares that the members of the Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) are equal. The council decides that Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Arius is exiled to Illyria; his works are confiscated and consigned to the flames.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291934511#Religion", "title": "325", "revid": 1291934511, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 335, "year_label": "335 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Constantine I reinstates the Alexandrian priest Arius (declared a heretic at the First Council of Nicaea in 325) in a synod at Jerusalem about a year before Arius' death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351653069#Religion", "title": "335", "revid": 1351653069, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 336, "year_label": "336 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Arius, Alexandrian priest, collapses in the street in Constantinople (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267076019#Religion", "title": "336", "revid": 1267076019, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 336, "year_label": "336 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Arius, Cyrenaic presbyter and priest (b. 256)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267076019#Deaths", "title": "336", "revid": 1267076019, "section": "Deaths"}}]}