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Athanasius of Alexandria

Pope of Alexandria from 328 to 373 (296–373)

18 dated entries naming Athanasius of Alexandria, drawn from 17 separate years between 298 CE and 373 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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3rd century

  • 298Athanasius of Alexandria, Egyptian patriarch (d. 373)source

4th century

  • 328May 9 – Athanasius is elected pope of Alexandria following the death of Alexander I.source
  • 335First Synod of Tyre: Constantine I convenes a gathering of bishops at Tyre to depose and exile Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria.source
  • 335November 7 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented the grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.source
  • 337June 17 – Constantius II announces the restoration of Athanasius, as Patriarch of Alexandria.source
  • 339Pope Julius I gives refuge in Rome to the Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who is deposed and expelled during the First Synod of Tyre (see 335).source
  • 346Emperor 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.source
  • 352May 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.source
  • 353Constantius II assembles a conciliabulum at Arles, and condemns Athanasius as Patriarch of Alexandria.source
  • 355Pope 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.source
  • 356February 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.source
  • 357Late 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.source
  • 361December 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.source
  • 362February 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.source
  • 365Emperor 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.source
  • 366January 31 – Athanasius of Alexandria returns from his fifth exile. He has spent four months in his ancestral tomb outside Alexandria.source
  • 367The first Listing of the New Testament (Bible) is made by St. Athanasius of Alexandria.source
  • 373May 2 – Athanasius of Alexandria, Egyptian bishop and saint (b. 296)source

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