city
Alexandria
Alexandria, Egypt
31.200, 29.916
Attested. The Christian school is well attested from Clement onward. Earlier origins are thinner.
The great Hellenistic city of Egypt. From the late second century it was a center of Christian teaching (Clement, Origen) and, in the fourth and fifth centuries, of sharp conflicts over doctrine and episcopal power.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Cited notes
60. Tradition, as reported by Eusebius, says Mark was the first sent to Egypt and founded churches in Alexandria.
Eusebius, Church History II.16 (NPNF2 1) · Verified in the source note
180. Pantaenus is said to have gone to India and found Matthew's gospel 'in the Hebrew language' left by Bartholomew.
Eusebius, Church History V.10 (NPNF2 1) · Verified in the source note
Further reading
Councils here
- Alexandria (362)