Alexander
Alexander was a Patriarch who, on his deathbed, recommended Athanasius as his successor. The bishops of all Egypt assembled at Alexandria, and finding the people and clergy unanimous in their choice of Athanasius for patriarch, they confirmed the election about the middle of year 326.
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When
- First attested
- 327 BCE
- Attested period
- -327 – 326
- Historical notes
- Recommends Athanasius as his successor in 326.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Arius, Romulus, Quirinus, Lycurgus, Lysander, Philip II of Macedon, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Julius Caesar, Claudius
- teacher of
- Athanasius
- allied with
- Anaxarchus
- syncretized with
- Elcsntre
- creator of
- Glycon
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Frances A. M. Forbes writes that when Patriarch Alexander was on his death-bed he called Athanasius, who fled fearing he would be constrained to be made bishop. "When the Bishops of the Church assembled to elect their new Patriarch, the whole Catholic population surrounded the church, holding up their hands to Heaven and crying; "Give us Athanasius!"”
#1391 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The story that at Bactra in 327 B.C. in a public speech he advised all to worship Alexander as a god even during his lifetime, is with greater probability attributed to the Sicilian Cleon.”
#44036 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free
“his father as seated among the gods along with Alexander”
#44332 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free