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	Dionysius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dionysius the Elder (or Dionysius I), a ruler of Syracuse in Sicily
		Dionysius the Younger, (or Dionysius II), son of the preceding
		Dionysius Periegetes, Greek geographer, 3d century BC Dionysius Thrax, Greek grammarian, 2d century BC Dionysius the Areopagite, an Athenian judge who was converted by Paul of Tarsus and became Bishop of Athens
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysius (301 words)

	Biography: Dionysius of Alexandria, bishop and scholar (21 Nov 265) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dionysius was a pupil of Origen in the great catechetical school in Alexandria, and then headed that school himself for fourteen years.
		In the period of peace that followed, Dionysius was a zealous supporter of lenient treatment for the lapsed (those who had renounced the faith under pressure, and now wished to be received back into the Church).
		Dionysius was a scholar, a keen student of pagan as well as Christian learning.
	elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/11/21.html (294 words)

	Dionysius Exiguus Dating the Birth of Jesus
		Dionysius Exiguus, a monk from Russia who died about 544, was asked by Pope John I to set out the dates for Easter from the years 527 to 626.
		Dionysius decided to begin with what he considered to be the year of Jesus' birth.
		Dionysius followed the convention of his times and, as the Roman calendar moved from the year 753 to 754, he called the latter "year one" of the New World order—anno domini the year of our Lord.
	www.westarinstitute.org /Periodicals/4R_Articles/Dionysius/dionysius.html (895 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Dionysius of Alexandria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 250 during the persecution of Decius, Dionysius tried to flee the city, but was caught and imprisoned.
		Exiled during the persecution of Valerian in 257 to the desert of Mareotis; he returned to Alexandria when toleration was decreed by Gallienus in 260.
		Dionysius dealt leniently with the Christians who had lapsed during the persecutions.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintd20.htm (97 words)

	ST. DIONYSIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pope Dionysius sent the sufferers a letter of consolation and a large sum of money to redeem such of the faithful as had been captured and enslaved.
		Dionysius of Alexandria was less than exact in his phraseology, but he was no heretic.
		Dionysius died in December 268 and was buried in the Cemetery of Calixtus.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp25.htm (387 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dionysius of Alexandria
		Dionysius at once took the side of the latter, and it was largely by his influence that the whole East, after much disturbance, was brought in a few months into unity and harmony.
		Certain brethren of Alexandria, being offended at the words of their bishop, betook themselves to Rome to Pope St. Dionysius (259- 268), who wrote a letter, in which he declared that to teach that the Son was made or was a creature was an impiety equal, though contrary, to that of Sabellius.
		Dionysius is in the Roman Martyrology on 17 Nov., but he is also intended, with the companions of his flight in the Decian persecution, by the mistaken notice on 3 Oct.: Dionysius, Faustus, Gaius, Peter, and Paul, Martyrs(!).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05011a.htm (2967 words)

	A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the ...
		Dionysius, then a presbyter, succeeded Heraclas as head of the Catechetical School, at the time, as the words of Eusebius imply, when Heraclas was made bp.
		Dionysius fled from Alexandria, and, being afterwards taken by some soldiers, was rescued by a friend, escaping in an obscure retirement from further attacks.
		Dionysius of Rome regarded ὑπόστασις as expressing the essence of the divine nature; Dionysius of Alexandria as expressing the essence of each divine person.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.Dionysius_6.html (1083 words)

	Dionysius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The dating of the life of Dionysius Periegetes (the Guide), the author of the Greek poem called in Latin De situ habitabilis orbis varies from 405 BC to 124 AD.
		Dionysius of Alexandria, called Periegetes (the Guide), was a contemporary of the great Hellenistic geographers Marinus of Tyre and Claudius Ptolemy.
		Dionysius, a Greek author of the time of Hadrian, is commonly known as Periegetes (the Guide), to distinguish him from other authors of the same name and refers to his work Orbis terrae descriptio, called De situ habitabilis orbis ("Descriptive Account of the Habitable World").
	sophistikatedkids.com /turkic/btn_GeographyMaps/DionysiusPeriegetes.htm (249 words)

	Decline of Library of Alexandria
		Alexandria became the second stage for the civil wars of Caesar; here the double drama of Antony and Cleopatra, then Caesar and Cleopatra played before the skeptical populace.
		During his visit to Alexandria in 130, the Emperor restored the city, founded a new library in the Caesareum, discussed philosophy at the Museum, and started a campaign to attract sophists such as Dionysius of Miletus and Polemon of Laodikeia to the Museum.
		Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, described firsthand the havoc wrecked by the siege, but mentions neither Library nor Museum, which certainly would have come under fire.
	www.digital-brilliance.com /kab/alex.htm (4258 words)

	Chapter 11 - Origen-Continued
		At Alexandria itself his disciples maintained the pre-eminence, and at the death of Demetrius, Heraclas, who had been the most intimate friend and trusted disciple of Origen, was raised to the Episcopal dignity by the free choice of the elders.
		Dionysius was the last of its great masters." It is to be deplored that none of the writings of Dionysius are known to exist.
		The two in Alexandria and Cæsarea were Universalistic of the school of Origen; those at Antioch and Edessa were Universalistic of the school of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Diodore of Tarsus.
	hellbusters.8m.com /upd11.html (3104 words)

	Arius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the discussion which followed, Dionysius, Patriarch of Alexandria, had used much the same language as Arius did later, and correspondence survives in which Pope Dionysius blames his brother of Alexandria for using such language.
		Dionysius of Alexandria responded with an explanation, which posterity has been inclined to interpret as vacillating.
		When Alexander died at Alexandria in 327, the election of Athanasius in his place was only secured in the face of violent opposition from the Arianizing faction.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Arius.htm (2800 words)

	Saint George Church Sporting Alexandria Egypt
		The school of Alexandria was undoubtedly the earliest important institution of theological learning in Christian antiquity.
		Most of the eminent leaders of Alexandria were known to have been connected with it, either as teachers or students.
		It is said that when he increased the number of local bishops to 20, the presbyters decided to distinguish him from the rest of the bishops by calling him "Papa." Thus, he was the first to bear the title of Pope, long before it was known to Rome.
	www.stgeorge-sporting.org /coptic/theschool.htm (640 words)

	The Papacy, by Abbé Guettée, Chapter III
		Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, who at that time exerted a great influence throughout the Church by reason of his holiness, his zeal and learning, declared himself openly for the Bishop of Carthage, and wrote upon the subject to Stephen, Bishop of Rome.
		Dionysius did not see an act of authority in the letter of Stephen, but an intervention that might throw a new germ of trouble in the Church; it was on this ground that he wished to check him.
		Dionysius of Alexandria acted in this affair as St. Irenæus did in the question of Easter; he declared openly for those who differed with the Bishop of Rome, while to the latter he addressed earnest prayers for the peace of the Church.
	jmgainor.homestead.com /files/PU/Lks/AbGu/AbGuch3.htm (9944 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Dionysius
		During the pontificate of Pope Stephen (254-57) Dionysius appears as a presbyter of the Roman Church and as such took part in the controversy concerning the validity of heretical baptism (see BAPTISM under sub-title Rebaptism).
		This caused Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria to write him a letter on baptism in which he is described as an excellent and learned man (Eusebius, Hist eccl.
		About 260 Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria wrote his letter to Ammonius and Euphranor against Sabellianism in which he expressed himself with inexactness as to the Logos and its relation to God the Father (see DIONYSIUS OF ALEXANDRIA).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05009b.htm (466 words)

	Origen of Alexandria, Alexandria, Ancient Christian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thus Dionysius, the bishop of Rome (to be distinguished from Dionysius of Alexandria) wrote an indignant letter in which he repudiated the view of his namesake, Dionysius of Alexandria.
		Thus when Dionysius of Alexandria spoke of the three hypostases of the Father, Son and Spirit, the bishop of Rome thought he was referring to three substances, which was not the case.
		Clement of Alexandria spoke of the Logos as universal reason and identified this with Christ so that, as a result of His coming, "the whole world has by this time become an Athens and a Greece through the Logos." Clement held that the believer must be trained in philosophy.
	wesley.nnu.edu /DACB/DACBCDFILES/stories/egypt/origen_.html (5441 words)

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		Therefore, if Dionysius really intended to write the name "Clement the Philosopher", it might be assumed that this Clement was a local Athenian of the the First Century who was well-known in his time and place but otherwise didn't make the pages of history.
		Ammoniuis-Saccus was born of Christian parents in Alexandria, and died in that city, A.D. Anastasius Sinaita calls him "the Wise", and Heirocles, the "the taught of God." Besides being famous for his expositions of Holy Scripture, he wrote the "Diatesseron," or "Harmony of the Gospels," contained the the Bib.
		Polycarp quotes Dionysius verbatim as "a certain one." Jerome quotes him as "quidam Graecorum." Dionysius of Alexandria (A.D. 250), writing to Sixtus II., declares that no one can intelligently doubt that the writings are those of Dionysius, the convert of St. Paul, Bishop of Athens.
	www.angelfire.com /ca4/seneca/parker2.html (4147 words)

	Handbook of Patrology: First Period, Section V: THE ORIENTAL WRITERS OF THE THIRD CENTURY
		Valentine, Carpocrates, and Basilides went out from Alexandria to establish their dissident sects, a circumstance which alone implies that, already in the middle of the second century, the intellectual activity there was intense.
		Dionysius wrote a number of treatises and conducted an extensive correspondence, of which only lengthy fragments have been preserved by Eusebius who mentions,[2] first, a work On Nature, written to refute the atomic theory of the formation of the world and to establish the Christian belief in creation.
		Dionysius wrote several letters to condemn their error, but made use of incorrect expressions with regard to the unity in the Trinity and the divinity of the Son.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /tixeront/section1-5.html (8684 words)

	Early Christians - biographical sketches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He later was appointed by Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria, to succeed Clement as head of the catechetical school in Alexandria, Egypt.
		He was condemned by the orthodox church for maintaining the preexistence of souls while denying the resurrection of the body, the literal truth of Scripture and the equality of the Father and the Son in the Trinity.
		Dionysius, a pupil of Origen in the catechetical school in Alexandria, later became head of that school and in 247 became Bishop of Alexandria.
	www.bibletexts.com /glossary/early-christians.htm (2544 words)

	The initial list of fathers is given alphabetically
		Clement of Alexandria (the sinlessness of Mary, 10/2/02)
		Cyril of Alexandria (the sinlessness of Mary, 4/23/03)
		Dionysius of Rome (the perspicuity of scripture, 9/30/02)
	www.ntrmin.org /catholic_but_not_roman_catholic_index_by_writer.htm (154 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Clement of Alexandria
		Clement of Alexandria, full name Titus Flavius Clemens (150?-215?), Greek theologian and an early Father of the Church.
		Clement of Alexandria, Cyril of Alexandria, Saint, Dionysius of Alexandria, Saint, Hero of Alexandria
		Alexandria (Egypt), city and major seaport in northern Egypt, in the Nile River delta, on a ridge that separates Lake Maryoţ from the Mediterranean...
	encarta.msn.com /Clement_of_Alexandria.html (120 words)

	Saints of December 26
		Dionysius, a Roman priest, was chosen as pope on July 22, 259, in an election delayed for one year because of the violence of Valerian's persecution of the Christians.
		Dionysius brought order to the Church and procured a comfortable peace after Emperor Gallienus issued he edict of toleration.
		Dionysius is the first pope who is not listed as a martyr (Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1226.htm (1692 words)

	Prolog: October 5
		Dionysius was born in Alexandria of eminent pagan parents.
		Dionysius lived, hidden by the faithful, outside Alexandria for three years so as not to be slain before his time.
		Dionysius went to Arsinoe to change the minds of the millenarians and to prevent the spread of this heresy.
	www.westsrbdio.org /prolog/my.html?day=5&month=October (1316 words)

	THE CHURCH HISTORY OF EUSEBIUS, BOOK VII
		DIONYSIUS, therefore, having communicated with him extensively on this question by letter, (1) finally showed him that since the persecution had abated, (2) the churches everywhere had rejected the novelty of Novatus, and were at peace among themselves.
		Besides these, many other epistles of Dionysius are extant, as those against Sabellius, (1) addressed to Ammon, (2) bishop of the church of Bernice, and one to Telesphorus, (8) and one to Euphranor, and again another to Ammon and Euporus.
		Meanwhile, Dionysius died in the twelfth year of the reign of Gallienus, (9) having held the episcopate of Alexandria for seventeen 4 years, and Maximus (10) succeeded him.
	www.synaxis.org /ecf/volume24/ECF00009.htm (9899 words)

	Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI
		Of the work itself Athanasius thus speaks: Finally, Dionysius complains that his accusers do not quote his opinions in their integrity, but mutilated, and that they do not speak out of a good conscience, but for evil inclination; and he says that they are like those who cavilled at the epistles of the blessed apostle.
		Dionysius makes mention of this sickness again in the paschal epistle to the Alexandrians, where he also speaks of the deacons who were cut off by that plague.-Vales.
		Dionysius mentions letters that had been written by him as well to the Presbyters Dionysius and Philemon as to Stephen, on the baptism of heretics and on the Sabellian heresy.
	biblestudy.churches.net /CCEL/FATHERS2/ANF06/ANF06143.HTM (8402 words)

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		Dionysius of Alexandria had written a mild letter pleading for mercy and forbearance.
		DIONYSIUS 259 - 268 The storm of persecution which had slain St. Sixtus and St. Lawrence blew throughout Rome with such violence that for some time the Christians could not elect a new pope.
		Julius informed the Arians at Alexandria of this decision and let them know that he was displeased at their uncooperative attitude.
	www.ewtn.com /library/CHRIST/POPES.TXT (22289 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elected to the papacy in 260, after the death of Emperor Valerian, St. Dionysius had been a leading figure in the church under Sixtus II.
		Dionysius reorganized the church, which was in disarray from the persecutions.
		The patriarch of Alexandria, also named Dionysius, accused the Pope of tritheism, charges the pope refuted eloquently and persuasively.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/dionysius.html (86 words)

	DIONYSIUS OF ALEXANDRIA, Epistle to the Bishop Basilides, 3rd century C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		DIONYSIUS OF ALEXANDRIA, Epistle to the Bishop Basilides, 3rd century C
		DIONYSIUS OF ALEXANDRIA, Epistle to the Bishop Basilides, 3rd century C.E. Canon II The question touching women in the time of their separation, whether it is proper for them when in such a condition to enter the house of God, I consider a superfluous inquiry.
		For I do not think that, if they are believing and pious women, they will themselves be rash enough in such a condition to either to approach the holy table or to touch the body and blood of the Lord.
	www.loyno.edu /~wessing/docs/Dionysius.html (186 words)

	Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) (ii.ii.i) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		THE Treatise on “Divine Names” was written by Dionysius, at the request of Timothy, and at the instigation of Hierotheus, to express, in a form more easily understood, the more abstract Treatise of Hierotheus, who was his chief instructor after St. Paul.
		There is a tradition that Dionysius erected the altar in Athens “to God unknown,” as author of the inexplicable darkness, which he observed in Egypt, and found afterwards from St. Paul to have been contemporaneous with the Crucifixion.
		Dionysius was first converted, and then, through him, those who naturally and properly followed his lead.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/dionysius/works.ii.ii.i.html (1324 words)

	Saint Dionysius of Alexandria -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A Christian convert, Dionysius studied in Alexandria at the catechetical school headed by Origen, whom in 231/232 he was elected to succeed.
		The seat of Douglas County in western Minnesota, the city of Alexandria is approximately 120 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis.
		The Pharos Lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt was considered to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9030543 (740 words)

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