What is Athanasius?
'''Athanasius '''was a [[Christian]] [[bishop]] and [[Patriarch]] of Alexandria in [[Egypt]]. Athanasius and another [[Church]] [[leader]] named [[Arius]] disagreed about the [[theology]] of [[Jesus]]. Emperor [[Constantine the Great]] had the leading [[priest]]s of [[Christianity]] go to the [[First Council of Nicea]] to [[debate]] which of the two was right. They said that it was Arius, so Arius’s [[theology]] became the [[Nicene Creed]] which Athanasius opposed. Athanasius’s religious belief is called the [[Athanasian Creed]]. [[Category:Bishops]] [[Category:Doctors of the Church]] [[Category:People from Alexandria]] [[Category:3rd-century births]] [[Category:370s deaths]] [[Category:Early Christian theologians]] {{bio-stub}}