Athanasius_of_Alexandria

qas: question: Who was the twentieth bishop of Alexandria?
answers: text: Saint Athanasius of Alexandria

question: What was one nickname for Saint Athanasius of Alexandria?
answers: text: Athanasius the Great

question: For how many years was Saint Athanasius of Alexandria a bishop?
answers: text: 45 years

question: How many years was Saint Athanasius of Alexandria in exile?
answers: text: 17

question: When did Saint Athanasius die?
answers: text: 2 May 373

question: What name is Saint Athanasius also known as?
answers: text: Athanasius the Great

question: Of what city was he bishop?
answers: text: Alexandria

question: How long did his episcopate last?
answers: text: 45 years

question: What is another name that Saint Athanasius is know as?
answers: text: Athanasius the Confessor

question: How old was Saint Athanasius of Alexandria when he became known as the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism?

question: During what years was Saint Athanasius of Alexandria exiled?

question: What city was Saint Athanasius of Alexandria exiled to?

question: How many times has Saint Athanasius of Alexandria been to Egypt?

question: What year was Saint Athanasius of Alexandria named Athanasius the Great?

question: Who was the thirteenth bishop of Alexandria?

question:  What was not a nickname for Saint Athanasius of Alexandria?

question:  For how many years was Saint Athanasius of Alexandria a pope?

question:  How many years was Saint Athanasius of Alexandria in freedom?

question: Of what city was he not a bishop?
context: Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (/ˌæθəˈneɪʃəs/; Greek: Ἀθανάσιος Ἀλεξανδρείας, Athanásios Alexandrías; c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor or, primarily in the Coptic Orthodox Church, Athanasius the Apostolic, was the twentieth bishop of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). His episcopate lasted 45 years (c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373), of which over 17 were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman emperors. Athanasius is a renowned Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century.

qas: question: In what year was Athanasius consecrated?
answers: text: 326

question: How old was Athanasius when he became the Patriarch of Alexandria?
answers: text: about thirty years of age

question: Did Athanasius want to be the Patriarch of Alexandria?
answers: text: He was most unwilling to accept

question: Did the people want Athanasius as their bishop?
answers: text: people were determined to have him

question: How long after the Council of Nice did Saint Athanasius die?
answers: text: five months

question: Was Saint Athanasius willing or unwilling to fill the vacancy?
answers: text: unwilling

question: In what year was he consecrated?
answers: text: in 326

question: How old was he when he was consecrated?
answers: text: thirty years of age.

question: In what year was Athanasius not consecrated?

question: How old was Athanasius when he became the Pope of Alexandria?

question:  Did Athanasius want to be the Saint of Alexandria?

question:  How long after the Council of Nice was Saint Athanasius born?
context: T. Gilmartin, (Professor of History, Maynooth, 1890), writes in Church History, Vol. 1, Ch XVII: On the death of Alexander, five months after the termination of the Council of Nice, Athanasius was unanimously elected to fill the vacant see. He was most unwilling to accept the dignity, for he clearly foresaw the difficulties in which it would involve him. The clergy and people were determined to have him as their bishop, Patriarch of Alexandria, and refused to accept any excuses. He at length consented to accept a responsibility that he sought in vain to escape, and was consecrated in 326, when he was about thirty years of age.

qas: question: Where did Athanasius remain for 6 years while living as a monk?
answers: text: Upper Egypt

question: What is name of one of the compositions composed by Athanasius while he lived as a monk?
answers: text: Letter to the Monks

question: Who took over after Athanasius?
answers: text: George of Cappadocia

question: Who influenced George of Cappadocia to become the new ruler?
answers: text: the Eusebian faction at Constantinople

question: Who was appointed to rule the see of Alexandria?
answers: text: George of Cappadocia

question: To where did Saint Athanasius withdraw?
answers: text: the desert of Upper Egypt

question: How long did he spend in the desert?
answers: text: six years

question: What is one thing he wrote during this time?
answers: text: Apology to Constantius

question: Who influenced the appointment of George of Cappadocia?
answers: text: the Eusebian faction at Constantinople

question: Who wrote "Gratitude for his Flight"?

question: Who wrote "Future of the Arians"?

question: Who wrote "Gratitude to Constantius"?
context: Through the influence of the Eusebian faction at Constantinople, an Arian bishop, George of Cappadocia, was now appointed to rule the see of Alexandria. Athanasius, after remaining some days in the neighbourhood of the city, finally withdrew into the desert of Upper Egypt, where he remained for a period of six years, living the life of the monks, devoting himself to the composition of a group of writings; "Apology to Constantius", the "Apology for his Flight", the "Letter to the Monks", and the "History of the Arians".

qas: question: Who succeeded Emperor Constantius?
answers: text: Julian

question: Who succeeded George of Cappadocia?
answers: text: Pistus

question: In what year did Athanasius return to his episcopal capitol?
answers: text: 362

question: In what year did Emperor Constantius die?
answers: text: 361

question: How did George of Cappadocia die in prison?
answers: text: murdered

question: Were the Arians united in their oppostion?
answers: text: The Arians no longer presented an unbroken front

question: Who succeeded the Emperor Constantius?
answers: text: Julian

question: What happened to the usurping bishop, George?
answers: text: flung into prison and murdered

question: Who then succeeded George?
answers: text: An obscure presbyter of the name of Pistus

question: When did Athanasius re-enter the capitol?
answers: text: 22 February, 362

question:  Who preceded Emperor Constantius?

question: Who preceded George of Cappadocia?

question: In what year was Emperor Constantius born?

question:  How did George of Cappadocia die outside of prison?
context: The Arians no longer presented an unbroken front to their orthodox opponents. The Emperor Constantius, who had been the cause of so much trouble, died 4 November, 361 and was succeeded by Julian. The proclamation of the new prince's accession was the signal for a pagan outbreak against the still dominant Arian faction in Alexandria. George, the usurping Bishop, was flung into prison and murdered. An obscure presbyter of the name of Pistus was immediately chosen by the Arians to succeed him, when fresh news arrived that filled the orthodox party with hope. An edict had been put forth by Julian permitting the exiled bishops of the "Galileans" to return to their "towns and provinces". Athanasius received a summons from his own flock, and he accordingly re-entered his episcopal capitol on 22 February, 362.

qas: question: What party benefited from the accession of Valens?
answers: text: Arian

question: Valens issued a decree banishing the bishops that were deposed by who?
answers: text: Constantius

question: What saint fled from Alexandria on 5 October to a country house outside Alexandria?
answers: text: Athanasius

question: Valens' banishment of Athanasius created the greatest consternation in what city?
answers: text: Alexandria

question: What did the decree of Valens do?
answers: text: banishing the bishops who had been deposed by Constantius

question: When the people in the city were concerned about Athanasius, what did the prefect do? 
answers: text: case of Athanasius would be laid before the emperor

question: What did  Athanasius do to protect himself?
answers: text: withdrew from Alexandria, 5 October

question: How did Valens get him to return?
answers: text: issued orders allowing Athanasius to return to his episcopal see

question:  What party didn't benefit from the accession of Valens?

question: Valens didn't issue a decree banishing the bishops that were deposed by who?

question: What happened on October 4?

question: What did the decree of Valens not do?
context: The accession of Valens gave a fresh lease of life to the Arian party. He issued a decree banishing the bishops who had been deposed by Constantius, but who had been permitted by Jovian to return to their sees. The news created the greatest consternation in the city of Alexandria itself, and the prefect, in order to prevent a serious outbreak, gave public assurance that the very special case of Athanasius would be laid before the emperor. But the saint seems to have divined what was preparing in secret against him. He quietly withdrew from Alexandria, 5 October, and took up his abode in a country house outside the city. Valens, who seems to have sincerely dreaded the possible consequences of another popular outbreak, within a few weeks issued orders allowing Athanasius to return to his episcopal see. 

qas: question: Who wrote the biography entitled Life of Antony?
answers: text: Athanasius

question: Life of Antony played an important role in the spreading of ascetic ideals in what religion?
answers: text: Eastern and Western Christianity

question: The biography, Life of Antony, also resembles of the life of who?
answers: text: Athanasius

question: The so-called Athanasian Creed draws upon the phraseology of what?
answers: text: Augustine's De trinitate

question: About whom did he write his most widely-read work?
answers: text: Anthony the Great

question: Why was this work considered to be important?
answers: text: spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity

question: How did he depict Anthony?
answers: text: illiterate and holy

question: Whose life did Anthony's resemble?
answers: text: Athanasius

question: What does the Athanasian Creed draw upon?
answers: text: Augustine's De trinitate

question: Who wrote the autobiography entitled Life of Antony?

question: Life of Antony played an unimportant role in the spreading of ascetic ideals in what religion?

question:  The biography, Life of Antony, also resembles of the life of what religion?

question:  About whom did he write his least widely-read work?
context: His biography of Anthony the Great entitled Life of Antony(Βίος καὶ Πολιτεία Πατρὸς Ἀντωνίου, Vita Antonii) became his most widely-read work. Translated into several languages, it played an important role in the spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity. Depicting Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, the biography also resembles the life of his biographer Athanasius. It later served as an inspiration to Christian monastics in both the East and the West. The so-called Athanasian Creed dates from well after Athanasius's death and draws upon the phraseology of Augustine's De trinitate.

qas: question: Athanasius began his leading role at what age?
answers: text: 27

question: In what year was the First Council of Nicaea?
answers: text: 325

question: Athanasius was also known as what?
answers: text: Athanasius Contra Mundum

question: How many years after the First Council of Nicaea did Athanasius become archbishop?
answers: text: Three years

question: Who is one emporer Athanasius struggled against?
answers: text: Constantine

question: What conflict shaped his career?
answers: text: Conflict with Arius and Arianism

question: Why was the First Council of Nicaea convened?
answers: text: Jesus of Nazareth, is of a distinct substance from the Father

question: Because of his conflicts with the emperors, how was he known?
answers: text: Athanasius Against the World

question: Whose position was it that Jesus was the Son of God?
answers: text: the Arian position

question: What year did Athanasius become a Roman emperor?

question: What year did Constantine meet Athanasius?

question: How old was Constantine when he was crowned emperor?

question: In what year did the First Council of Nicaea end?

question: How many years did the First Council of Nicaea last?

question: Athanasius ended his leading role at what age?

question:  In what year was the last Council of Nicaea?

question:  Athanasius was never known as what?

question: How many years after the First Council of Nicaea did Athanasius become pope?

question:  What peaceful protest shaped his career?
context: Conflict with Arius and Arianism as well as successive Roman emperors shaped Athanasius's career. In 325, at the age of 27, Athanasius began his leading role against the Arians as his bishop's assistant during the First Council of Nicaea. Roman emperor Constantine the Great had convened the council in May–August 325 to address the Arian position that the Son of God, Jesus of Nazareth, is of a distinct substance from the Father. Three years after that council, Athanasius succeeded his mentor as archbishop of Alexandria. In addition to the conflict with the Arians (including powerful and influential Arian churchmen led by Eusebius of Nicomedia), he struggled against the Emperors Constantine, Constantius II, Julian the Apostate and Valens. He was known as "Athanasius Contra Mundum" (Latin for Athanasius Against the World).

qas: question: As a child, Athanasius imitated what ritual?
answers: text: ritual of Christian baptism

question: Were the pretend baptisms real?
answers: text: the baptisms were genuine

question: Why was Athanasius instructed to stop pretend baptising?
answers: text: not been properly catechized

question: What work did the Bishop suggest for Athanasius?
answers: text: clerical careers

question: When Rufinus stood by a window what did he witness?

question: Who did Bishop Alexander baptize?

question: Who told Rufinus that the baptisms were genuine?

question: What was Rufinus' career?

question: As an adult, Athanasius imitated what ritual?

question:  Why was Athanasius ordered to continue baptising?

question:  What school did the Bishop suggest for Athanasius?
context: Rufinus relates a story that as Bishop Alexander stood by a window, he watched boys playing on the seashore below, imitating the ritual of Christian baptism. He sent for the children and discovered that one of the boys (Athanasius) had acted as bishop. After questioning Athanasius, Bishop Alexander informed him that the baptisms were genuine, as both the form and matter of the sacrament had been performed through the recitation of the correct words and the administration of water, and that he must not continue to do this as those baptized had not been properly catechized. He invited Athanasius and his playfellows to prepare for clerical careers.

qas: question: Where was persecution of Christianity the worst?
answers: text: in the East

question: In what year was Peter of Alexandria martyred?
answers: text: in 311

question: Who could have been one of Athanasius's teachers?
answers: text: Peter of Alexandria

question: What suggests that Athanasius was familiar with ancient Greek philosophers?
answers: text: quoting Plato

question: What famous Greek author did Athanasius  quote?
answers: text: Homer

question: Where was Athanasius martyred?

question: When was Homer martyred?

question: When did Athanasius meet Plato?

question: When did Athanasius attend the School of Alexandria?

question: Where was persecution of Christianity the best?

question:  In what year was Peter of Alexandria born?

question: Who could have been one of Athanasius's students?

question:  What suggests that Athanasius was unfamiliar with ancient Greek philosophers?

question:  What famous Italian author did Athanasius quote?
context: Athanasius recounts being a student, as well as being educated by the Martyrs of the Great (tenth) and last persecution of Christianity by pagan Rome.[citation needed] This persecution was most severe in the East, particularly in Egypt and Palestine. Peter of Alexandria, the 17th archbishop of Alexandria, was martyred in 311 in the closing days of that persecution, and may have been one of those teachers. His successor as bishop of Alexandria, Alexander of Alexandria (312–328) was an Origenist as well as a documented mentor of Athanasius. According to Sozomen, Bishop Alexander "invited Athanasius to be his commensal and secretary. He had been well educated, and was versed in grammar and rhetoric, and had already, while still a young man, and before reaching the episcopate, given proof to those who dwelt with him of his wisdom and acumen". Athanasius's earliest work, Against the Heathen – On the Incarnation (written before 319), bears traces of Origenist Alexandrian thought (such as repeatedly quoting Plato and used a definition from Aristotle's Organon) but in an orthodox way. Athanasius was also familiar with the theories of various philosophical schools, and in particular with the developments of Neo-Platonism. Ultimately, Athanasius would modify the philosophical thought of the School of Alexandria away from the Origenist principles such as the "entirely allegorical interpretation of the text". Still, in later works, Athanasius quotes Homer more than once (Hist. Ar. 68, Orat. iv. 29). In his letter to Emperor Constantius, he presents a defense of himself bearing unmistakable traces of a study of Demosthenes de Corona.

qas: question: What made Arius's belief about Jesus different from Alexander's?
answers: text: Son (Logos) of God, made, not begotten

question: Was this differing view common among Christians of the day?
answers: text: common Christological view

question: What other leaders believed this?
answers: text: powerful bishops

question: What eventually happened to Arius?
answers: text: excommunicated by Alexander

question: When did Athanasius become a deacon?

question: When did Arius become a deacon?

question: Where was Arius born?

question: When did Athanasius become a bishop?

question: Where did Origen meet Athanasius?

question: What made Arius's belief about Jesus the same from Alexander's?

question:  What other leaders did not believe this?

question: Who was communicated by Alexander?
context: In about 319, when Athanasius was a deacon, a presbyter named Arius came into a direct conflict with Alexander of Alexandria. It appears that Arius reproached Alexander for what he felt were misguided or heretical teachings being taught by the bishop. Arius's theological views appear to have been firmly rooted in Alexandrian Christianity, and his Christological views were certainly not radical at all. He embraced a subordinationist Christology which taught that Christ was the divine Son (Logos) of God, made, not begotten, heavily influenced by Alexandrian thinkers like Origen, and which was a common Christological view in Alexandria at the time. Support for Arius from powerful bishops like Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius of Nicomedia, further illustrate how Arius's subordinationist Christology was shared by other Christians in the Empire. Arius was subsequently excommunicated by Alexander, and he would begin to elicit the support of many bishops who agreed with his position.

qas: question: Who did Athanasius succeed?
answers: text: Alexander

question: How many exiles did he endure?
answers: text: five exiles

question: The churches of what countries were in his territory?
answers: text: Egypt and Libya

question: Was he united with the Arians in his beliefs?
answers: text: disputes against Arians

question: Who did Athanasius proceed?

question:  How many exiles did he evade?

question:  The churches of what countries were in not his territory?

question: Who did he agree with in his beliefs?
context: Athanasius's episcopate began on 9 May 328 as the Alexandrian Council elected Athanasius to succeed the aged Alexander. That council also denounced various heresies and schisms, many of which continued to preoccupy his 45-year-long episcopate (c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373). Patriarch Athanasius spent over 17 years in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which Athanasius fled Alexandria to escape people seeking to take his life. This gave rise to the expression "Athanasius contra mundum" or "Athanasius against the world". However, during his first years as bishop, Athanasius visited the churches of his territory, which at that time included all of Egypt and Libya. He established contacts with the hermits and monks of the desert, including Pachomius, which proved very valuable to him over the years. Shortly thereafter, Athanasius became occupied with the theological disputes against Arians within the Byzantine Empire that would occupy much of his life.

qas: question: Where is Gaul currently located?
answers: text: Belgium / Holland and surrounding areas

question: With whom did Athanasius travel to Sardica?
answers: text: Hosius of Cordoba

question: About what did the Council of the Church question Athanasius?
answers: text: misdemeanours and even murder

question: Was Athanasius permitted admission to the Council?
answers: text: objections were overridden by the orthodox bishops

question: What was the verdict at the Council of Sardica?
answers: text: his innocence reaffirmed

question: Where is Gaul not currently located?

question:  With whom did Athanasius travel to Africa?

question:  About what did the Council of the Church question Julius?

question: Who was found guilty?
context: Early in the year 343 we find Athanasius had travelled, via Rome, from Alexandria, North Africa, to Gaul; nowadays Belgium / Holland and surrounding areas, where Hosius of Cordoba was Bishop, the great champion of orthodoxy in the West. The two, together, set out for Sardica. A full Council of the Church was convened / summoned there in deference to the Roman pontiff's wishes. The travel was a mammoth task in itself. At this great gathering of prelates, leaders of the Church, the case of Athanasius was taken up once more, that is, Athanasius was formally questioned over misdemeanours and even murder, (a man called Arsenius and using his body for magic, – an absurd charge.). [The Council was convoked for the purpose of inquiring into the charges against Athanasius and other bishops, on account of which they were deposed from their sees by the Semi-Arian Synod of Antioch (341), and went into exile. It was called according to Socrates, (E. H. ii. 20) by the two Emperors, Constans and Constantius; but, according to Baronius by Pope Julius (337–352), (Ad an. 343). One hundred and seventy six attended. Eusebian bishops objected to the admission of Athanasius and other deposed bishops to the Council, except as accused persons to answer the charges brought against them. Their objections were overridden by the orthodox bishops, about a hundred were orthodox, who were the majority. The Eusebians, seeing they had no chance of having their views carried, retired to Philoppopolis in Thrace, Philippopolis (Thracia), where they held an opposition council, under the presidency of the Patriarch of Antioch, and confirmed the decrees of the Synod of Antioch. ]. Once more, at the Council of Sardica, was his innocence reaffirmed. Two conciliar letters were prepared, one to the clergy and faithful of Alexandria, the other to the bishops of Egypt and Libya, in which the will of the Council was made known. Meanwhile, the Eusebian party had gone to Philippopolis, where they issued an anathema against Athanasius and his supporters. The persecution against the orthodox party broke out with renewed vigour, and Constantius was induced to prepare drastic measures against Athanasius and the priests who were devoted to him. Orders were given that if the Saint attempt to re-enter his see, he should be put to death. Athanasius, accordingly, withdrew from Sardica to Naissus in Mysia, where he celebrated the Easter festival of the year 344. It was Hosius who presided over the Council of Sardica, as he did for the First Council of Nicaea, which like the 341 synod, found Athanasius innocent. &. He celebrated his last Easter in exile in Aquileia in April 345, received by bishop Fortunatianus.

qas: question: In what year did Pope Julius die?
answers: text: 352

question: Did Liberius sympathize with Athanasius?
answers: text: Liberius had been favourable

question: What was the outcome of the Council of Milan?
answers: text: a fourth condemnation of Athanasius

question: What was  Athanasius doing when he was arrested?
answers: text: engaged in services

question: Where the men armed who arrested him?
answers: text: armed men

question: In what year was Pope Julius born?

question: What wasn't the outcome of the Council of Milan?

question: Who was arrested by unarmed men?

question: What happened in 368?
context: Pope Julius had died in April, 352, and was succeeded by Liberius. For two years Liberius had been favourable to the cause of Athanasius; but driven at last into exile, he was induced to sign an ambiguous formula, from which the great Nicene text, the "homoousion", had been studiously omitted. In 355 a council was held at Milan, where in spite of the vigorous opposition of a handful of loyal prelates among the Western bishops, a fourth condemnation of Athanasius was announced to the world. With his friends scattered, the saintly Hosius in exile, and Pope Liberius denounced as acquiescing in Arian formularies, Athanasius could hardly hope to escape. On the night of 8 February, 356, while engaged in services in the Church of St. Thomas, a band of armed men burst in to secure his arrest. It was the beginning of his third exile.

qas: question: Who had a policy of condemning Athanasius?
answers: text: the Arians

question: What was Athanasius doing the next time an arrest was attempted?
answers: text: a vigil service

question: Where did Athanasius flee to after this attempt?
answers: text: Upper Egypt

question: What did he write during this time?
answers: text: Four Orations against the Arians

question: In which work did he refer to Constantius as a precursor of the Antichrist?
answers: text: History of the Arians

question:  Who had a policy of agreeing with Athanasius?

question: What was Athanasius doing the first time an arrest was attempted?

question:  Where did Athanasius flee to before this attempt?

question:  What did he paint during this time?
context: Constantius, renewing his previous policies favoring the Arians, banished Athanasius from Alexandria once again. This was followed, in 356, by an attempt to arrest Athanasius during a vigil service. Athanasius fled to Upper Egypt, where he stayed in several monasteries and other houses. During this period, Athanasius completed his work Four Orations against the Arians and defended his own recent conduct in the Apology to Constantius and Apology for His Flight. Constantius's persistence in his opposition to Athanasius, combined with reports Athanasius received about the persecution of non-Arians by the new Arian bishop George of Laodicea, prompted Athanasius to write his more emotional History of the Arians, in which he described Constantius as a precursor of the Antichrist.

qas: question: Where did bishops of the West meet?
answers: text: Rimini in Italy

question: What did the Arians agree upon at Sirmium?
answers: text: a formula of faith

question: What was the belief that was approved at this council?
answers: text: The Son to be "like the Father"

question: What did the orthodox leaders believe?
answers: text: the Nicene

question: What belief was accepted by Constantius?
answers: text: Arian

question:  Where did bishops of the East meet?

question: What did the Arians disagree upon at Sirmium?

question:  What was the belief that was disproved at this council?

question:  What did the orthodox leaders not believe?

question:  What belief was not accepted by Constantius?
context: T. Gilmartin, (Professor of History, Maynooth, 1890), writes in Church History, Vol. 1, Ch XVII: The Arians sought the approval of an Ecumenical Council. They sought to hold two councils. Constantius, summoned the bishops of the East to meet at Seleucia in Isauria, and those of the West to Rimini in Italy. A preliminary conference was held by the Arians at Sirmium, to agree a formula of faith. A "Homoeon" creed was adopted, declaring The Son to be "like the Father". The two met in autumn of 359. At Seleucia, one hundred and fifty bishops, of which one hundred and five were semi-Arian. The semi-Arians refused to accept anything less than the "Homoiousion", (see: Homoiousian), formulary of faith. The Imperial Prefect was obliged to disband, without agreeing on any creed. Acacius, the leader of the "Homoean" party went to Constantinople, where the Sirmian formulary of faith was approved by the "Home Synod", (consisted of those bishops who happened to be present at the Court for the time), and a decree of deposition issued against the leaders of the semi-Arians. At Rimini were over four hundred of which eighty were Arian, the rest were orthodox. The orthodox fathers refused to accept any creed but the Nicene, while the others were equally in favour of the Sirmian. Each party sent a deputation to the Emperor to say there was no probability to agreement, and asked for the bishops to return to their dioceses. For the purpose of wearing-down the orthodox bishops; (Sulpitius Severius says), Constantius delayed his answer for several months, and finally prevailed on them to accept the Sirmian creed. It was after this Council that Jerome said: " ...the whole world groaned in astonishment to find itself Arian."

qas: question: Who was jealous of Athanasius's influence?
answers: text: Julian

question: What position did Ecdicius hold?
answers: text: Prefect of Egypt

question: What did Julian try to do to Athanasius?
answers: text: expulsion

question: Did Athanasius tell the people to protest?
answers: text: urged them to submit

question: Did he think he would be gone a long time?
answers: text: short duration

question: Who wasn't jealous of Athanasius's influence?

question:  What position did Ecdicius reject?

question: What did Athanasius not tell the people?
context: With characteristic energy he set to work to re-establish the somewhat shattered fortunes of the orthodox party and to purge the theological atmosphere of uncertainty. To clear up the misunderstandings that had arisen in the course of the previous years, an attempt was made to determine still further the significance of the Nicene formularies. In the meanwhile, Julian, who seems to have become suddenly jealous of the influence that Athanasius was exercising at Alexandria, addressed an order to Ecdicius, the Prefect of Egypt, peremptorily commanding the expulsion of the restored primate, on the ground that he had never been included in the imperial act of clemency. The edict was communicated to the bishop by Pythicodorus Trico, who, though described in the "Chronicon Athanasianum" (XXXV) as a "philosopher", seems to have behaved with brutal insolence. On 23 October the people gathered about the proscribed bishop to protest against the emperor's decree; but Athanasius urged them to submit, consoling them with the promise that his absence would be of short duration.

qas: question: When did he write his first works on Orthodox Christianity?
answers: text: before the Arian controversy

question: Which of the two first works addresses pagan practices?
answers: text: Against the Heathen

question: How did he believe Jesus came into the world?
answers: text: in human form

question: Which of his works addresses redemption and the Son of God?
answers: text: Incarnation of the Word of God

question:  When did he write his last works on Orthodox Christianity?

question:  Which of the last works addresses pagan practices?

question:  How did he not believe Jesus came into the world?

question:  Which of his works did not address redemption and the Son of God?
context: Athanasius also wrote a two-part Against the Heathen and The Incarnation of the Word of God. Completed probably early in his life, before the Arian controversy, they constitute the first classic work of developed Orthodox theology. In the first part, Athanasius attacks several pagan practices and beliefs. The second part presents teachings on the redemption. Also in these books, Athanasius put forward the belief that the Son of God, the eternal Word through whom God created the world, entered that world in human form to lead men back into the harmony from which they had earlier fallen away.

qas: question: What did he do when he thought he might be made Bishop?
answers: text: fled

question: Who did the Catholics of Alexandria want as their Bishop?
answers: text: "Give us Athanasius!"

question: Was there someone else that was preferred as Bishop?
answers: text: The Bishops had nothing better

question: When did Alexander ask to see Athanasius? 
answers: text: on his death-bed

question:  What did he do when he thought he might be fired from being Bishop?

question:  Who didn't the Catholics of Alexandria want as their Bishop?

question:  When did Athanasius ask to see Alexander?
context: In the light of Mother F. A. Forbes research and reference to Pope Saint Gregory's writings, it would appear that Athanasius was constrained to be Bishop: She writes that when the Patriarch Alexander was on his death-bed he called Athanasius, who fled fearing he would be constrained to be made Bishop. "When the Bishops of the Church assembled to elect their new Patriarch, the whole Catholic population surrounded the church, holding up their hands to Heaven and crying; "Give us Athanasius!" The Bishops had nothing better. Athanasius was thus elected, as Gregory tells us..." (Pope Gregory I, would have full access to the Vatican Archives).

qas: question: Was Athanasius well liked by everyone?
answers: text: many detractors

question: What was he accused of doing to a church?
answers: text: defiling an altar

question: He was accused of selling grain for what reason?
answers: text: his own personal gain

question: What did he call his detractors?
answers: text: Arian

question: What did the term Arian mean to him?
answers: text: Christians who disagreed with his formulation

question: Who liked Athanasius?

question:  What was he accused of doing to a mosque?

question:  What did he not call his detractors?

question:  What did the term Arian not mean to him?
context: Throughout most of his career, Athanasius had many detractors. Classical scholar Timothy Barnes relates contemporary allegations against Athanasius: from defiling an altar, to selling Church grain that had been meant to feed the poor for his own personal gain, and even violence and murder to suppress dissent. Athanasius used "Arian" to describe both followers of Arius, and as a derogatory polemical term for Christians who disagreed with his formulation of the Trinity. Athanasius called many of his opponents "Arian", except for Miletus.

qas: question: What was he known as soon after he died?
answers: text: Pillar of the Church

question: How does the Eastern Orthodox Church refer to him?
answers: text: Father of Orthodoxy

question: What do the Protestants call him?
answers: text: Father of the Canon

question: What is his feast day in Western Christianity?
answers: text: 2 May

question: What day is he celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church?
answers: text: 18 January

question: On what day did Gregory of Nazianzus call Athanasius the "Pillar of the Church"?

question: When was Gregory of Nazianzus counted as one of the four great Eastern Doctors of the Church in the Roman Catholic Church?

question: What is Gregory of Nazianzus feast day in the Coptic Orthodox Church?

question: What is Gregory of Nazianzus feast day in Western Christianity?

question: What is Gregory of Nazianzus feast day in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches?

question: What was he known as soon after he was born?

question: How does the Eastern Orthodox Church never refer to him?

question:  What do the Catholics call him?

question:  What is his feast day in Northern Christianity?

question: What day is he celebrated in the Southern Orthodox Church?
context: Nonetheless, within a few years of his death, Gregory of Nazianzus called him the "Pillar of the Church". His writings were well regarded by all Church fathers who followed, in both the West and the East, who noted their rich devotion to the Word-become-man, great pastoral concern, and profound interest in monasticism. Athanasius is counted as one of the four great Eastern Doctors of the Church in the Roman Catholic Church. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, he is labeled the "Father of Orthodoxy". Some Protestants label him "Father of the Canon". Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches. He is venerated by the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutherans, and the Anglican Communion.

qas: question: What was Alexandria known for?
answers: text: important trade center

question: Was the famous school in Alexandria religious only?
answers: text: secular character

question: Did only Christians attend the school?
answers: text: influential pagans

question: Was Alexandria welcoming to other cultures?
answers: text: ethnically diverse

question: What was Rome known for?

question: What was the name of the city where Athanasius went to catechetical school?

question: Where did Athanasius meet pagans?

question: Where were the pagans from?

question: What was Alexandria not known for?

question: What epitomized the ethnically uniform world?
context: Alexandria was the most important trade center in the whole empire during Athanasius's boyhood. Intellectually, morally, and politically—it epitomized the ethnically diverse Graeco-Roman world, even more than Rome or Constantinople, Antioch or Marseilles. Its famous catechetical school, while sacrificing none of its famous passion for orthodoxy since the days of Pantaenus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Dionysius and Theognostus, had begun to take on an almost secular character in the comprehensiveness of its interests, and had counted influential pagans among its serious auditors.

qas: question: What famous event happened in 303?
answers: text: Maximian persecution

question: What writing mentions the Arian accusation that Athanasius was under aged?
answers: text: the Festal Epistles

question: At what age was a man eligible to be ordained at Patriarch of Alexandria?
answers: text: canonical age (30)

question: When was Cornelius Clifford born?

question: What year did Cornelius Clifford attend the Maximian persecution?

question: When was Cornelius Clifford ordained as Patriarch of Alexandria?

question: What church does Cornelius Clifford belong to?

question: How old was Cornelius Clifford when he joined The Orthodox Church?

question: What famous event happened in 305?

question: What writing denies that the Arian accusation that Athanasius was under aged?

question: At what age was a woman eligible to be ordained at Patriarch of Alexandria?

question: What is the age of 20 called?
context: However Cornelius Clifford places his birth no earlier than 296 and no later than 298, based on the fact that Athanasius indicates no first hand recollection of the Maximian persecution of 303, which he suggests Athanasius would have remembered if he had been ten years old at the time. Secondly, the Festal Epistles state that the Arians had accused Athanasius, among other charges, of not having yet attained the canonical age (30) and thus could not have been properly ordained as Patriarch of Alexandria in 328. The accusation must have seemed plausible. The Orthodox Church places his year of birth around 297.

qas: question: Did the followers of Meletius obey the guidelines of Nicaea?
answers: text: failed to abide

question: What was Athanasius accused of planning against the Arians?
answers: text: cut off essential Egyptian grain

question: What was the verdict of the accusation?
answers: text: was found guilty

question: What was his punishment?
answers: text: anathematized

question: Who was he accused of harming?
answers: text: Arians and Meletians

question: Who did obey the guidelines of Nicaea?

question: Who claimed Constantinople would cut off grain supplies?

question: Constantinople was afraid they wouldn't receive grains from whom?

question: What exile is in modern day France?
context: Athanasius's first problem lay with Meletius of Lycopolis and his followers, who had failed to abide by the First Council of Nicaea. That council also anathematized Arius. Accused of mistreating Arians and Meletians, Athanasius answered those charges at a gathering of bishops in Tyre, the First Synod of Tyre, in 335. There, Eusebius of Nicomedia and other supporters of Arius deposed Athanasius. On 6 November, both sides of the dispute met with Emperor Constantine I in Constantinople. At that meeting, the Arians claimed Athanasius would try to cut off essential Egyptian grain supplies to Constantinople. He was found guilty, and sent into exile to Augusta Treverorum in Gaul (now Trier in Germany).

qas: question: Did Athanasius speak Greek?
answers: text: knew Greek

question: Did he understand Hebrew?
answers: text: not knowing Hebrew

question: Did he know all of the Old Testament?
answers: text: limited to the Septuagint

question: What did students learn in the school in Alexandria?
answers: text: Scriptural study and of Greek

question: What translation of the Old Testament did he study?
answers: text: Septuagint Greek

question: What is the name of the school where Athanasius learned Hebrew?

question: Where did Athanasius obtain a Septuagint from?

question: Where did Athanasius obtain a Hebrew Septuagint from?

question: What letter did Athanasius write in Hebrew?

question: What part of the Old Testament did he not know?

question:  What did teachers learn in the school in Alexandria?

question: What copy of the scriptures did he have in exile?

question: What was not a characteristic of the school?
context: Athanasius knew Greek and admitted not knowing Hebrew [see, e.g., the 39th Festal Letter of St. Athan.]. The Old Testament passages he quotes frequently come from the Septuagint Greek translation. Only rarely did he use other Greek versions (to Aquila once in the Ecthesis, to other versions once or twice on the Psalms), and his knowledge of the Old Testament was limited to the Septuagint. Nonetheless, during his later exile, with no access to a copy of the Scriptures, Athanasius could quote from memory every verse in the Old Testament with a supposed reference to the Trinity without missing any.[citation needed] The combination of Scriptural study and of Greek learning was characteristic of the famous Alexandrian School.

qas: question: Who did he have to thank for his ability to come back to Alexandria in 345?
answers: text: Constans

question: Were the people glad to have him home?
answers: text: enthusiastic demonstrations

question: In what writing did he recount his time in exiles?
answers: text: Apology Against the Arians

question: What happened when Constans died?
answers: text: civil war

question: Did the new emperor agree or disagree with the Arians?
answers: text: pro-Arian

question: Who was not thanked for letting him back in Alexandria?

question: What happened in 346?

question: When did the uncivil war happen?

question: When was Constan born?
context: After the death of the replacement bishop Gregory in 345, Constans used his influence to allow Athanasius to return to Alexandria in October 345, amidst the enthusiastic demonstrations of the populace. This began a "golden decade" of peace and prosperity, during which time Athanasius assembled several documents relating to his exiles and returns from exile in the Apology Against the Arians. However, upon Constans's death in 350, another civil war broke out, which left pro-Arian Constantius as sole emperor. An Alexandria local council in 350 replaced (or reaffirmed) Athanasius in his see.

qas: question: What did Athanasius do to avoid speaking to Alexander on his deathbed?
answers: text: fled

question: Who did the Alexandrian people want to be their Bishop?
answers: text: Give us Athanasius

question: Did the Bishops have someone else in mind?
answers: text: Bishops had nothing better

question: Who did Alexander ask for when he was dieing?
answers: text: called Athanasius

question: What did Athanasius do to avoid speaking to Alexander at lunch?

question:  Who did the Alexandrian people want to be their pope?

question: Who did the bishops want to be their bishop?

question:  Who did Alexander deny talking to when he was dying?
context: Frances A. M. Forbes writes that when the Patriarch Alexander was on his death-bed he called Athanasius, who fled fearing he would be constrained to be made Bishop. "When the Bishops of the Church assembled to elect their new Patriarch, the whole Catholic population surrounded the church, holding up their hands to Heaven and crying; "Give us Athanasius!" The Bishops had nothing better. Athanasius was thus elected, as Gregory tells us..." (Pope Gregory I, would have full access to the Vatican Archives).

qas: question: How much warning was Liberius given before his exile?
answers: text: three days

question: Where did Liberius go?
answers: text: Beroea

question: Did bribery work in convincing Liberius to believe the Arians?
answers: text: were refused

question: Who tried to bribe Liberius?
answers: text: Constantius

question: What did Liberius have to promise to do in order to return?
answers: text: comply with the bishops

question: How much warning was Liberius given before his freedom?

question: What happened in 355?

question:  Where did Liberius come from?

question:  Who tried to convince Liberius?
context: Constantius, ordered Liberius into exile in 356 giving him, then, three days to comply. He was ordered into banishment to Beroea, in Thrace; Beroea (Thrace). He sent expensive presents, too, if he were to accept the Arian position but were refused. He sent him, indeed, five hundred pieces of gold "to bear his charges" but Liberius refused them, saying, he might bestow them on his flatters; as he did also a like present from the empress, bidding the messenger learn to believe in Christ, and not to persecute the Church of God. Attempts were made to leave the presents in The Church, but Liberius threw them out. Constantius hereupon sent for him under a strict guard to Milan, where, in a conference recorded by Theodoret, he boldly told Constantius that Athanasius had been acquitted at Sardica, and his enemies proved calumniators (see: "calumny") and impostors, and that it was unjust to condemn a person who could not be legally convicted of any crime. The emperor was reduced to silence on every article, but being the more out of patience, ordered him into banishment. Liberius went into exile. Constantius, after two years went to Rome to celebrate the twentieth year of his reign. The ladies joined in a petition to him that he would restore Liberius. He assented, upon condition that he should comply with the bishops, then, at court. He subscribed the condemnation of Athanasius, and a confession or creed which had been framed by the Arians at Sirmium. And he no sooner had recovered his see that he declared himself for the Creed of Niceae, as Theodoret testifies. (Theodoret, Hist. lib. ii. c. 17.). The Emperor knew what he wanted people to believe. So did the bishops at his court. Athanasius stuck by the orthodox creed. Constantius was an avowed Arian, became sole ruler in 350, at the death of his brother, Constans.

qas: question: At what point could Athanasius return to Alexandria?
answers: text: When Emperor Constantine I died

question: Who provided for his protection while he was in Rome?
answers: text: Constans

question: Who became Patriarch in Alexandria while Athanasius was away?
answers: text: Gregory of Cappadocia

question: How did the people of Alexandria know when to celebrate Easter?
answers: text: Festal Letters

question: Who declared Athanasius to be exiled again?
answers: text: Constantius II

question:  At what point could Athanasius leave Alexandria?

question:  Who provided for his judgement while he was in Rome?

question:  Who became Patriarch in Alexandria while Athanasius was present?

question:  Who declared Athanasius to be freed again?
context: When Emperor Constantine I died, Athanasius was allowed to return to his See of Alexandria. Shortly thereafter, however, Constantine's son, the new Roman Emperor Constantius II, renewed the order for Athanasius's banishment in 338. Athanasius went to Rome, where he was under the protection of Constans, the Emperor of the West. During this time, Gregory of Cappadocia was installed as the Patriarch of Alexandria, usurping the absent Athanasius. Athanasius did, however, remain in contact with his people through his annual Festal Letters, in which he also announced on which date Easter would be celebrated that year.

qas: question: Why did the Bishops condemn Athanasius?
answers: text: threats of the Emperor

question: Did the Pope agree with this order?
answers: text: Pope refused to accept

question: Did the Emperor agree to a new trial for Athanasius?
answers: text: Constantius consented

question: What oath did the Bishops have to take at the trial?
answers: text: Arian formula of faith

question: What happened to the Bishops who did not take the oath?
answers: text: sent into exile

question: Why didn't the Bishops condemn Athanasius?

question: Who agreed with the order?

question: Who did not consent to a new trial?

question: What oath was not taken at the trial?
context: T. Gilmartin, (Professor of History, Maynooth, 1890), writes in Church History, Vol. 1, Ch XVII: By Constantius's order, the sole ruler of The Roman Empire at the death of his brother Constans, the Council of Arles in 353, was held, which was presided over by Vincent, Bishop of Capua, in the name of Pope Liberius. The fathers terrified of the threats of the Emperor, an avowed Arian, they consented to the condemnation of Athanasius. The Pope refused to accept their decision, and requested the Emperor to hold another Council, in which the charges against Athanasius could be freely investigated. To this Constantius consented, for he felt able to control it, at Milan. Milan was named as the place, here three hundred bishops assembled, most from the West, only a few from the East, in 355. They met in the Church of Milan. Shortly, the Emperor ordered them to a hall in the Imperial Palace, thus ending any free debate. He presented an Arian formula of faith for their acceptance. He threatened any who refused with exile and death. All, with the exception of Dionysius (bishop of Milan), and the two Papal Legates, viz., Eusebius of Vercelli and Lucifer of Cagliari, consented to the Arian Creed and the condemnation of Athanasius. Those who refused were sent into exile. The decrees were forwarded to the Pope for approval, but were rejected, because of the violence to which the bishops were subjected.

qas: question: What happened to Bishop George?
answers: text: murder

question: What happened to Bishop leaders who did not agree with the doctrine?
answers: text: severe penance

question: When did Athanasius return to his position as Patriarch?
answers: text: after the death of Emperor Constantius

question: Who joined him when he formed a council to encourage unity among Christians?
answers: text: Eusebius of Vercelli

question: What happened in 362?

question: What happened to Bishop leaders who agreed with the doctrine?

question:  When did Athanasius return to his position as pope?

question: Who left him when he formed a council to encourage unity among Christians?
context: In 361, after the death of Emperor Constantius, shortly followed by the murder of the very unpopular Bishop George, Athanasius returned to his patriarchate. The following year he convened a council at Alexandria, and presided over it with Eusebius of Vercelli. Athanasius appealed for unity among all those who had faith in Christianity, even if they differed on matters of terminology. This prepared the groundwork for his definition of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity. However, the council also was directed against those who denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit, the human soul of Christ, and Christ's divinity. Mild measures were agreed on for those heretic bishops who repented, but severe penance was decreed for the chief leaders of the major heresies.

qas: question: What Christian beliefs did Emperor Valens adhere to?
answers: text: Arian

question: Where did Athanasius during his latest exile?
answers: text: outskirts of Alexandria

question: For how long was he exiled this time?
answers: text: few months

question: Where did he hide during this time?
answers: text: his father's tomb

question: Who convinced Valens to let him return to Alexandria?
answers: text: local authorities

question: What Catholic beliefs did Emperor Valens adhere to?

question:  Where did Athanasius go during his first exile?

question: How many years was he exiled?

question:  Who didn't convince Valens to let him return to Alexandria?
context: Two years later, the Emperor Valens, who favored the Arian position, in his turn exiled Athanasius. This time however, Athanasius simply left for the outskirts of Alexandria, where he stayed for only a few months before the local authorities convinced Valens to retract his order of exile. Some early reports state that Athanasius spent this period of exile at his family's ancestral tomb in a Christian cemetery. It was during this period, the final exile, that he is said to have spent four months in hiding in his father's tomb. (Soz., "Hist. Eccl.", VI, xii; Soc., "Hist. Eccl.", IV, xii).

qas: question: Who standardized the books of the New Testament?
answers: text: Athanasius

question: What books were used before his decision to standardize?
answers: text: various

question: How many books are listed that should be included but were not?
answers: text: 7 books

question: How many books are in the New Testament?
answers: text: 27 books

question: Have those books changed over time?
answers: text: in use today

question: Who standardized the books of the Old Testament?

question: What books were used after his decision to standardize?

question:  How many books are listed that shouldn't be included?

question:  How many books are in the old Testament?
context: Athanasius is the first person to identify the same 27 books of the New Testament that are in use today. Up until then, various similar lists of works to be read in churches were in use. Athanasius compiled the list to resolve questions about such texts as The Epistle of Barnabas. Athanasius includes the Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah and places the Book of Esther among the "7 books not in the canon but to be read" along with the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Judith, Tobit, the Didache, and the Shepherd of Hermas.

qas: question: Did Athanasius feel that it was important to believe that Jesus was the Son of God?
answers: text: not optional but necessary

question: Did his place more value on his Faith or where he was living?
answers: text: the true Faith

question: Did he think that the people that had exiled him were true believers?
answers: text: outside of the true Faith

question: Where did Athanasius think Faith resides?
answers: text: within you

question: Who was the Festal Letter written for?
answers: text: his Church in Alexandria

question: What did Athanasius feel was optional?

question:  Where didn't Athanasius think Faith resides?

question:  Who was the Festal book written for?
context: Perhaps, his most notable letter was his Festal Letter, written to his Church in Alexandria when he was in exile, as he could not be in their presence. This letter shows clearly his stand that accepting Jesus is the Divine Son of God is not optional but necessary; "I know moreover that not only this thing saddens you, but also the fact that while others have obtained the churches by violence, you are meanwhile cast out from your places. For they hold the places, but you the Apostolic Faith. They are, it is true, in the places, but outside of the true Faith; while you are outside the places indeed, but the Faith, within you. Let us consider whether is the greater, the place or the Faith. Clearly the true Faith. Who then has lost more, or who possesses more? He who holds the place, or he who holds the Faith?

qas: question: How did the people  know that Alexander had chosen Athanasius as his successor?
answers: text: thrice repeating his name

question: How old was Athanasius when he was chosen as Patriarch?
answers: text: thirty years

question: Who came to Alexandria to confirm the choice?
answers: text: bishops of all Egypt

question: Did all the people want him as Patriarch?
answers: text: unanimous in their choice

question: How long after the Council of Nicae did Alexander die?
answers: text: Five months

question: How did the people know that Alexander had chosen Athanasius as his predecesor?

question:  How old was Athanasius when he was chosen as Pope?

question:  How long after the Council of Nicae was Alexander born?
context: Alban Butler, writes on the subject: "Five months after this great Council, Nicae, St Alexander lying on his death-bed, recommended to his clergy and people the choice of Athanasius for his successor, thrice repeating his name. In consequence of his recommendation, the bishops of all Egypt assembled at Alexandria, and finding the people and clergy unanimous in their choice of Athanasius for patriarch, they confirmed the election about the middle of year 326. He seems, then, to have been about thirty years of age. " 

qas: question: Which of the Gospels most agrees with Athanasius?
answers: text: Gospel of John

question: What does this Gospel show that Athanasius also believed?
answers: text: the Divinity of Jesus

question: Why is the Gospel of John said at the end of Catholic Mass?
answers: text: a result of Athanasius

question: Where was this Gospel said?
answers: text: at the altar

question: When are different Gospels said?
answers: text: certain Feast days

question:  Which of the Gospels most disagrees with Athanasius?

question:  What does this Gospel show that Athanasius also didn't believe?

question:  Why is the Gospel of John said at the end of Christian Mass?

question:  Where was this Gospel never said?
context: The Gospel of John and particularly the first chapter demonstrates the Divinity of Jesus. This Gospel in itself is the greatest support of Athanasius's stand. The Gospel of John's first chapter began to be said at the end of Mass, we believe as a result of Athanasius, and his life's stand, but quietly. The Last Gospel of The Mass, The Eucharist, St John[1:1–14], together with the prayer; "Placeat tibi", the Blessing, are all private devotions that have been gradually absorbed by the liturgical service. The beginning of John's Gospel was much used as an object of special devotion throughout the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, the practice of saying it at the altar grew; eventually Pius V made this practice universal for the Roman Rite in his edition of the Missal (1570). It became a firm custom with exceptions in using an other Gospel in use from 1920. So the Missals showed different last Gospel for certain Feast days. A Prayer Card for the St John's Gospel. Also:

qas: question: Did all Arians believe the same things?
answers: text: different theological views

question: Were Arians also Origenists?
answers: text: supported the tenets

question: Did the bishops consider themselves Arians?
answers: text: bishops disagreed

question: What did the Council of Nicaea decide about Arianism?
answers: text: a real theological ideology

question: Did Arians have one set of beliefs?
answers: text: not monolithic

question: What party was monolithic?

question: What did Homoousian bishops disagree with?

question: What council wasn't used as proof?
context: Scholars now believe that the Arian Party was not monolithic, but held drastically different theological views that spanned the early Christian theological spectrum. They supported the tenets of Origenist thought and theology, but had little else in common. Moreover, many labelled "Arian" did not consider themselves followers of Arius. In addition, non-Homoousian bishops disagreed with being labeled as followers of Arius, since Arius was merely a presbyter, while they were fully ordained bishops. However, others point to the Council of Nicaea as proof in and of itself that Arianism was a real theological ideology.[citation needed]