DOCTOR
Saint Athanasius of Alexandria
Bishop, Doctor of the Church
Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Father of Orthodoxy, declared a Doctor of the Church.
background
Saint Athanasius (c. 296-373), bishop of Alexandria, was the great defender of the divinity of Christ against Arianism at the First Council of Nicaea (325) and through five exiles. His treatise On the Incarnation and his Life of St. Antony shaped Christian theology and monasticism. Named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius V in 1568.
summary
Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Father of Orthodoxy, declared a Doctor of the Church.
doctor Title
Father of Orthodoxy
feast Day
May 2