Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: St. Alexander of Alexandria and Athanasius took the first position ; the popular presbyter Arius , from whom the term Arian controversy comes , took the second .
Simplified: St. Alexander of Alexandria and Athanasius claimed to take the first position ; the popular presbyter Arius , from whom the term Arianism comes , is said to have taken the second .