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Council of Nicaea
- Council of Nicaea (1st : 325)
- Council of Nicaea (2nd : 787)
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Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers
- 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
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- Alexander, Patriarch of Alexandria, c. 250–328 (opens new windowabout)
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- 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
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- 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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Other Writers of the Same Period
- 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