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Arius

Arius

Cyrenaic presbyter (died 336) AriusImagined portrait of Arius; detail of a Cretan School icon, c. 1591, depicting the First Council of NicaeaBorn250/256Ptolemais, Cyrenaica, Roman Empire(modern-day Tolmeita, Libya)Died336 (aged 80 or 86)Constantinople, Thracia, Roman Empire(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)Notable workThaliaTheological workEra3rd and 4th centuries ADLanguageKoine GreekTradition or movementArianismNotable ideasSubordinationism Part of a series of articles onArianism History and theology Arius Acacians Anomoeanism Arian controversy Arian creeds First Council of Nicaea Gothic Christianity Gothic Bible (Codex Argenteus) Lucian of Antioch Semi-Arianism Arian leaders Acacius of Caesarea Aëtius of Antioch Demophilus of Constantinople Eudoxius of Antioch Eunomius of Cyzicus Eusebius of Nicomedia Eustathius of Sebaste George of Laodicea Wulfila Other Arians Asterius of Cappadocia Auxentius of Milan Auxentius of Durostorum Constantius II Gothic persecution of Christians Fritigern Alaric I Artemius Odoacer Theodoric the Great Modern semi-Arians Samuel Clarke Isaac Newton William Whiston Opponents Peter of Alexandria Achillas of Alexandria Alexander of Alexandria Hosius of Corduba