Alexander of Alexandria

Attested. His role at the outbreak and at Nicaea is documented in letters and in the church historians. The exact year the quarrel began is not.

Alexander condemned Arius and wrote to other bishops not to receive him. At Nicaea he led the Egyptian side, with his deacon Athanasius as secretary. He died in 328. Athanasius succeeded him after an election his enemies called irregular. Alexander's letters are the main near-contemporary account of what Arius was teaching.

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