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ATHANASIOS I the GREAT (328-373)

      The most prominent defender of the Church during the 4th century. He participated in the 1st Ecumenical Council as the accompanying Deacon of Archbishop Alexandros I, where he distinguished himself on his theological grounding. Following the death of Alexander I he was elected Archbishop of Alexandria. He was slandered by the followers of Arius and was exiled three times. He fought vigorously for the Orthodox faith and is honoured as a Saint of the Church.
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14/04/2013
On 12th April 2013, the General Secretary of the Global Christian Forum, Rev. Dr. Larry Miller, paid a visit to His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa. During the private ...
08/04/2013
On Friday 5th April 2013, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa officiated at the service of the third Stasis of the Salutations to the Most Holy Theotokos at the community Church of the Glorious Saints Constantine and Helen, Equal to the Apostle, in Cairo, ...
08/04/2013
On 24th March 2013, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, officiated at Matins and conducted the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Church of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Alexandria, concelebrating with His Eminence Gabriel ...
23/03/2013
At a 40-day memorial service conducted last Friday 22nd March for Father Isidoros, who so unexpectedly left us forty days ago, His Beatitude Theodoros II and all the community of Cairo honoured his memory, at the Hooly Church of the Archangels in Daher, Cairo, in the presence of the Greek ...
21/03/2013
On 21st March 2013, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, welcomed to the Patriarchal Vicariate of Cairo His Eminence Elia, Metropolitan of Tyre and Sidon and His Grace Isaac Bishop of Apameia. During the meeting His Beatitude was made aware of the position ...
20/03/2013
On Saturday 9th March 2013, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, conducted the Opening of the renovated “HELIOPOLIS ORTHODOX CLUB”, belonging to the Arabic speaking Orthodox Community of Cairo in Heliopolis, in the presence also of His Eminence ...
11/03/2013
On 10th March 2013, an article by His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, titled “Beside the orphans of the civil war”, was published in the Sunday Newspaper Real News. In this article His Beatitude sets his thoughts, images and emotions from his ...
25/02/2013
On 24th February 2013 His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, conducted the first Patriarchal Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Bujumbura, together with His Eminence Jonah Metropolitan of Kampala and His Grace Innokentios ...
24/02/2013
On 23rd February 2013 His Beatitude Theodoros II Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied by His Grace Innokentios Bishop of Burundi and Rwanda and other colleagues of the Missionary effort in Bujumbura, visited the settlement developed in the Buramata district with the ...
23/02/2013
On 21stFebruary 2013 His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, having completed his pastoral visit to the Holy Metropolis of Irinopolis in Tanzania, arrived after midnight in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi and see of the Holy diocese of Burundi and Rwanda for his ...
20/02/2013
On Monday 18thFebruary 2012 His Beatitude Theodoros II Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, in the framework of his pastoral visit to Tanzania, met with His Excellency the President of the country Mr. Jakaya M. Kikwete at the Presidential Mansion. During the warm welcome show to the ...
19/02/2013
On the evening of Sunday 17th February 2013, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa visited the Russian Destroyer “MARSHALL ...
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