{"slug": "athanasius-of-alexandria", "label": "Athanasius of Alexandria", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_of_Alexandria", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44024", "qid": "Q44024", "description": "Pope of Alexandria from 328 to 373 (296–373)", "entries": 18, "years": 17, "span": [298, 373], "span_label": ["298 CE", "373 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 12}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "patriarch-of-alexandria", "label": "Patriarch of Alexandria", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "upper-egypt", "label": "Upper Egypt", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "arianism", "label": "Arianism", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "trier", "label": "Trier", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantius-ii", "label": "Constantius II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christians", "label": "Christians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "milan", "label": "Milan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 298, "year_label": "298 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Athanasius of Alexandria, Egyptian patriarch (d. 373)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339920738#Births", "title": "298", "revid": 1339920738, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 328, "year_label": "328 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – Athanasius is elected pope of Alexandria following the death of Alexander I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364903834#Religion", "title": "328", "revid": 1364903834, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 335, "year_label": "335 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "First Synod of Tyre: Constantine I convenes a gathering of bishops at Tyre to depose and exile Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351653069#Religion", "title": "335", "revid": 1351653069, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 335, "year_label": "335 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented the grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351653069#Roman_Empire", "title": "335", "revid": 1351653069, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 337, "year_label": "337 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – Constantius II announces the restoration of Athanasius, as Patriarch of Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342549552#Religion", "title": "337", "revid": 1342549552, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 339, "year_label": "339 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope Julius I gives refuge in Rome to the Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who is deposed and expelled during the First Synod of Tyre (see 335).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355371026#Religion", "title": "339", "revid": 1355371026, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 346, "year_label": "346 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Constans I uses his influence to secure the return of Athanasius. He is restored as Patriarch of Alexandria, and documents are compiled relating to his expulsion, under the title Apology Against the Arians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267077760#Religion", "title": "346", "revid": 1267077760, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 352, "year_label": "352 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – Pope Julius I dies after a 15-year reign in which he has made himself the chief opponent of Arianism. He is succeeded by Pope Liberius as the 36th pope, who immediately writes to Constantius II requesting a council at Aquileia to discuss the former Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who opposes the Arian belief to which the emperor subscribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1279672452#Religion", "title": "352", "revid": 1279672452, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 353, "year_label": "353 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Constantius II assembles a conciliabulum at Arles, and condemns Athanasius as Patriarch of Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1283412514#Roman_Empire", "title": "353", "revid": 1283412514, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 355, "year_label": "355 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope Liberius refuses to sign a condemnation of Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria, imposed at Milan by Constantius II. Liberius is exiled to Beroea (Greece) and replaced by Felix II. He becomes an antipope and bishop of Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331300399#Religion", "title": "355", "revid": 1331300399, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 356, "year_label": "356 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire, and ordering the banishment once again of the anti-Arian patriarch of Alexandria, Athanasius. He tries to have him arrested during a vigil service, but Athanasius flees to the Nitrian desert in Upper Egypt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369161915#Roman_Empire", "title": "356", "revid": 1369161915, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 357, "year_label": "357 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Late in the year Pope Liberius travels to Sirmium (Pannonia) and agrees to sign documents that effectively undo the Nicene Creed (which implicitly disavows Arianism) and to sever his relationship with the former Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who is replaced as patriarch of Alexandria by his Arian opponent George of Cappadocia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331328193#Religion", "title": "357", "revid": 1331328193, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 361, "year_label": "361 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – George of Cappadocia, the Arian intruding bishop of Alexandria, is murdered in his see and Athanasius of Alexandria returns to his native city in triumph.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331332525#Religion", "title": "361", "revid": 1331332525, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 362, "year_label": "362 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 21", "text": "February 21 – Athanasius returns to Alexandria and convenes a council, at which he appeals for unity among Christians who differ in terminology, but Emperor Julian orders Athanasius to leave Alexandria. He will remain in exile in Upper Egypt, until after Julian's death the next year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331333761#Religion", "title": "362", "revid": 1331333761, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 365, "year_label": "365 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Valens orders the expulsion of the Alexandrian bishop Athanasius from his see, but instead of going into exile Athanasius, now about 67, moves to the outskirts of Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1286254673#Religion", "title": "AD 365", "revid": 1286254673, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 366, "year_label": "366 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 31", "text": "January 31 – Athanasius of Alexandria returns from his fifth exile. He has spent four months in his ancestral tomb outside Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370006797#Religion", "title": "366", "revid": 1370006797, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 367, "year_label": "367 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The first Listing of the New Testament (Bible) is made by St. Athanasius of Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556842#Religion", "title": "367", "revid": 1326556842, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 373, "year_label": "373 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 2", "text": "May 2 – Athanasius of Alexandria, Egyptian bishop and saint (b. 296)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364742164#Deaths", "title": "373", "revid": 1364742164, "section": "Deaths"}}]}