Letters on the Arian Heresy

Saint Alexander of Alexandria · c. 320 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Bishop of Alexandria (313–326); the immediate predecessor of St Athanasius and his teacher. The original opponent of the priest Arius, whose deposition Alexander effected at the Synod of Alexandria (c. 318). Present and active at the First Council of Nicaea (325). His Letters on the Arian heresy are the first sustained pre-Nicene refutation of Arianism.

Contents

1. Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius(6 chapters)
2. Elucidations(1 chapter)