Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948

Alexander, Patriarch of Antioch

ALESSANDRO, PATRIARCA D'ANTIOCHIA

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ALEXANDER, Patriarch of Antioch. - He had spent his life practicing monastic virtues and every kind of austerity, when in 313 he succeeded Porphyrius as patriarch of Antioch. Through the holiness of his life, reinforced by an effective eloquence, he succeeded in reconciling the Eustathians, who had already since 330 been separated from the other Catholics. A. was the first to restore the name of St. John Chrysostom to the diptychs: he communicated this happy news to Innocent I and asked for his communion. The Pope replied with a letter signed by himself and by 20 bishops, and with another, wholly cordial one, from himself alone.

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BIBL.: Nicephorus: PG, 146, 1135; F. Cavallera, Le schisme d'Antioche, Paris 1905; id., in Bull. de litt. eccl. p. par l'init. cath. de Toulouse, 1906, pp. 120-25. The letters are in PL 20, 19-24, 540-551; Tillemont, X, pp. 642 ff.; 831 ff.; Bar Hebraeus, Chron. eccl., ed. J. B. Abeloos and T. Lamy, I, Louvain 1872, coll. 137-39.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 782.

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Sfair, Pietro. “Alessandro, patriarca d'antiochia.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 782. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/alessandro-patriarca-d-antiochia.

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Sfair, Pietro. “Alessandro, patriarca d'antiochia.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 782. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/alessandro-patriarca-d-antiochia.

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  author    = {Sfair, Pietro},
  title     = {Alessandro, patriarca d'antiochia},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {782},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/alessandro-patriarca-d-antiochia}
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