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• Lactantius, c. 240-c. 320 (opens new windowabout)
  • tutor to Constantine's son
• Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria, c. 300–373 (opens new windowabout)
  • opponent of Arianism
  • exiled five times
  • opens new windowearlychurch.org.uk
• Alexander, Patriarch of Alexandria, c. 250–328 (opens new windowabout)
  • websites (opens new window one more)
• Eustathius (or Eustace) of Antioch, d. before 337 (opens new windowabout)
  • exiled to Trajanopolis (Thrace)
• Marcellus of Ancyra
• Eusebius of Caesarea, c. 260–c. 340 (opens new windowabout)
  • also known as Eusebius Pamphili
  • father of church history
  • advisor to Constantine
  • opens new windowwebsite
• Cyril of Jerusalem, c. 315–386 (opens new windowabout)
  • opposed Arianism
  • exiled twice
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• Epiphanius of Salamis (Cyprus) (opens new windowabout)
  • Panarion​
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• Arius
  • an Alexandrian presbyter
  • held that Jesus was created by God
• Nestorius
• Eusebius of Nicomedia
• Eutyches
• Aetius, d. c. 366
• Eunomius, d. c. 394
• Theodore of Mopsuestia, c. 350–c. 428
  • student of Libanius, c. 314–393, Sophist rhetorician
  • pupil of Diodore
  • fell into Nestorianism
  • recovered works include:
    • Commentary on St.John
    • Catechetical Homilies
    • Commentary on the Psalms
• ​​Philoxenus of Mabbug
  • 13 homilies on the Christian life
  • ​advocate of miaphysitism
  • revision of Syriac Bible