Arius
A-ri'us or A-rei'us, popularly called A'rl-us, [Gr.
"Aohoc,] the founder of Arianism, and author of the
greatest schism that ever divided the Christian Church
before the Reformation, was born at Cyrene, in Africa,
shortly after the middle of the third century. He was
ordained a deacon at Alexandria by the patriarch Peter,
and promoted to the highes...
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（Ἄρειος). A celebrated writer and theologian of Alexandria,
who denied the eternal divinity and consubstantiality of the
Second Person of the Trinity. Though much persecuted for his
heresy, he succeeded in winning the favour of the emperor
Constantine, and supplanted his great opponent St. Athanasius.
When about to enter the cathedral at Const...
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Arius (AD 250 or 256 – 336) was a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. His teachings about the nature of the Godhead,
which emphasized the Father's Divinity over the Son, and his opposition to the Athanasian or Trinitarian Christology, made
him a controversial figure in the First Council of Nicea, convened by Roman Emperor Constantine in 3...
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