Definition of Athanasius the Great

1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Athanasius The Great

Atellans
Atenism
Aterian
Ateso
Athabascan
Athabascans
Athabaskan
Athabaskans
Athan
Athanasian
Athanasian Creed
Athanasianism
Athanasios
Athanasius
Athanasius the Great (current term)
Athapascan
Athapaskan
Athapaskan language
Atharva-Veda
Atharvaveda
Athelstan
Athena
Athene
Athene noctua
Athenian
Athenians
Athens
Atherinidae
Atherinopsis

Literary usage of Athanasius the Great

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester, Massachusetts, During the by Emory Washburn (1874)
"Continuation of the Arian Controversy— Athanasius the Great. Athanasius, who, on the death of Alexander, Archbishop of Alexandria, and when only thirty ..."

2. History of the Church by Johannes Baptist Alzog (1912)
"Continuation of the Arian Controversy—Athanasius the. Great. Athanasius, who, on the death of Alexander, Archbishop of Alexandria, and when only thirty ..."

3. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1873)
"S. Athanasius the Great, BD (AD 375.) [Roman Martyrology. By the Greeks on the i8th Jan. Authorities : — The works of S. Athanasius, especially the ..."

4. The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful (1843)
"25.) it appears that this was not the reason which led George to excommunicate them. George, the bishop, was a semi-Arian. Athanasius, the great opponent of ..."

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