Feast April 8
Pope Dionysius of Alexandria
Pope · Feast April 8
Biography
Dionysius the Great was the 14th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria from 28 December 248 until his death on 22 March 264. Most information known about him comes from a large corpus of correspondence. Only one complete letter survives; the remaining letters are excerpted in the works of Eusebius.
Feast day
April 8
Birth date
C. 190 CE
Death date
22 March 264
Canonization status
Canonized
Feast month
4
Feast day of month
8