Fragments from the Writings of Peter.
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Peter of Alexandria
Peter of Alexandria
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Peter of Alexandria (died 311) was the seventeenth bishop of Alexandria and, according to the church historian Philip of Sidetes, head of its Catechetical School before his episcopate — though Philip's list of school heads is incomplete and the claim is not corroborated by earlier sources. He succeeded Theonas around 300 CE. During the Diocletianic Persecution, beginning around 303–304, he went into exile, encouraging his church by letter while sheltering in Phoenicia, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and various islands. He returned to Alexandria, convened a council circa 306 that deposed Meletius of Lycopolis and excommunicated Arius, and was suddenly arrested and beheaded on 25 November 311 by order of the emperor Maximinus Daia, earning the title "Seal of the Martyrs" as the last bishop to die in the Great Persecution.
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Stop 1 of 1260–311Birthplace, Bishopric, Martyrdom
AlexandriaEgypt
What they did here
Peter was born, educated under bishop Theonas, and appointed bishop c. 300; he convened a council here c. 306 against Meletius and excommunicated Arius, before being arrested and beheaded on 25 November 311 by order of Maximinus Daia. The birth year 260 is unattested and approximate.
Alexandria in this era
Under Roman imperial rule, Alexandria hosted the Catechetical School (Didascaleion), where Clement and then Origen turned the city into early Christianity's foremost theological workshop, pioneering allegorical Scripture interpretation and systematic theology in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries.
About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
In Alexandria at the same time
Antony of Egypt, Athanasius of Alexandria, St., Alexander of Alexandria
Across the traditions, in Alexandria at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Peter of Alexandria’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Antony of Egypt, Athanasius of Alexandria, St., Alexander of Alexandria
Works(3)
The Canonical Epistle, with the Commentaries of Theodore Balsamon and John Zonaras.
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The Genuine Acts of Peter.
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