Pope Alexander I of Alexandria

So this is the first question.

We, as a scholars, you know, as a people, we, we should go further, not just, "Oh, we have Canon Six," but why? Why they, why, why they use this language? Why, why they did it? Because in Alexandria, during 300s, beginning of the fourth century, there was a man, Meletius of Lycopolis, and he ordained bishops without permission of his metropolitan, of the Alexander of Alexandria, of the bishop of Alexandria, uh, so without his, his permission.

So the council fathers thought that, "Okay, we must promulgate Canon Six and going..." And they said that this is ancient tradition, that, um, Alexandria and Antioch has authority, or eksusia in Greek.

When you go to Greek, read in Greek, there is, use word eksusia, eksusia, power, authority, or jurisdiction could also translate this.

End of From the Two Books on the Promises in Opposition to Noetus, a Bishop in Egypt, by Dionysius of Alexandria.

Encyclical of Alexander Excommunicating Arius, by Alexander of Alexandria.

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Salute the brethren who are with you.

Those with me give you greeting.

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When Gregory, the illuminator of Armenia, met his son, Aristaces, returning from Nicaea and heard from his lips the text of a new creed, he at once exclaimed, Yea, we glorify him who was before the ages by adoring the Holy Trinity and the one Godhead of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, now and forever through ages and ages.

Moreover, the emperor's violent edicts against the Arians and the banishment of Eusebius and Theognis all indicated a settled and rooted conviction which nothing could shake, while the death of the patriarch Alexander of Alexandria and the election of Athanasius in his stead must have strengthened enormously the Catholic party in Egypt and indeed throughout the east.

Alexander had died within a few months of his return from Nicaea in the early part of 326.

He is said, when on his deathbed, to have foretold the elevation of Athanasius and the trials which lay before him.

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For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Encyclical Letter of Alexander, Archbishop of Alexandria, upon his deposition and excommunication of Arius Whereas the Catholic Church is one body, and we are bidden in Holy Scripture to preserve the bond of concord and peace, it is fitting that we should write and signify to each other what is happening in our own parts, so that, whether one member suffers or rejoices, we all may suffer or rejoice with it.

Salute the brethren who are with you.

Those with me give you greeting.

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Against Beron and Helix by Hippolytus of Rome.