Letters and Works

Saint Dionysius the Great of Alexandria · c. 250 AD

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

Disciple of Origen; Bishop of Alexandria (247–264) through the persecutions of Decius and Valerian. His extant letters preserved by Eusebius and others are a primary source for the Eucharistic, baptismal, and conciliar life of the mid-3rd-century Church. His controversy with Dionysius of Rome over Trinitarian language anticipates the distinctions of Nicaea.

Contents

1. Extant Fragments(20 chapters)
2. Exegetical Fragments(9 chapters)
3. Note by the American Editor(1 chapter)