Pope Dionysius of Alexandria
Head of the Church in Alexandria from 248 to 264 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the bishop of Alexandria. For the topographical poet, see Dionysius Periegetes.
Dionysius the Great (Ancient Greek: Διονύσιος Ἀλεξανδρείας) was the 14th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria from 28 December 248 until his death on 22 March 264. Most information known about him comes from a large corpus of correspondence. Only one complete letter survives; the remaining letters are excerpted in the works of Eusebius.
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Dionysius the Great | |
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Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria | |
Archdiocese | Alexandria |
See | Alexandria |
Papacy began | 28 December 248 |
Papacy ended | 22 March 264 |
Predecessor | Heraclas |
Successor | Maximus |
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Born | |
Died | 22 March 264 Egypt |
Buried | Church of the Cave, Alexandria |
Nationality | Egyptian |
Alma mater | Catechetical School of Alexandria |
Sainthood | |
Feast day | 13 Paremhat (Coptic Christianity)[1] 8 April[2] |
Venerated in | Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy Oriental Orthodoxy |
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Called "the Great" by Eusebius, Basil of Caesarea and others, he was characterized by the Catholic Encyclopedia as "undoubtedly, after St. Cyprian, the most eminent bishop of the third century... like St. Cyprian, less a great theologian than a great administrator."[3]