Marcellus of Ancyra

Attested. His presence at Nicaea and his deposition are secure. How modalist his theology really was is still argued from fragments.

Marcellus was on Alexander's side at Nicaea and a fierce opponent of Arius. He was deposed in 336. Opponents called his teaching Sabellian, a modalism that seemed to swallow the Son back into the Father. Rome and the western meeting at Serdica defended him. Athanasius was allied with him and later uneasy. He died about 374. He is not Basil of Ancyra, a different bishop of the next generation.

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