Alexandria

This source names Alexandria directly: "over orthodox Christianity: had Alexandria prevailed over Rome, he writes, the "extravagant and muddled stories" he has summarized would read as "coherent, majestic, and perfectly ordinary."

The cult of Serapis, promoted by Ptolemy I, drew on the Egyptian Osiris-Apis and was worshipped at the city's Serapeum.

This source names Alexandria directly: "associated above all with Origen of Alexandria, covering its Stoic background, its condemnation history, and the scholarly disagreement over what Origen himself actually held."

This source names Alexandria directly: "It was founded by Basilides, who taught in Alexandria under the emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius (roughly the 120s to 140s CE) and is reported to have written a lost Gospel and a multi-volume..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "biographical entry on Basilides of Alexandria, founder of the Basilidean Gnostic sect."

This source names Alexandria directly: "Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, it coordinates and supports around 168 member agencies that between them run the largest private social service network in the United States, delivering food..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "USA in 1986, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, the national office of the network of local diocesan Catholic Charities agencies."

This source names Alexandria directly: "first bishop of Aksum by Athanasius of Alexandria."

This source names Alexandria directly: "Morton Smith's Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark reports Smith's own 1958 discovery at Mar Saba monastery of a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria quoting an otherwise unknown..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "Eileen Caddy, born 26 August 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, was a British spiritual teacher and writer who co-founded the Findhorn Foundation with her husband Peter Caddy and their friend Dorothy Maclean."

This source names Alexandria directly: "states she was born 26 August 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, moved to a caravan near Findhorn, Scotland with her husband Peter Caddy, their children and their friend Dorothy Maclean on 17 November 1962..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "given autocephaly by Shenouda III of Alexandria, pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, after Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1993, and separately covers the 2005 to 2007 removal of..."

Frumentius was consecrated bishop for Aksum by Athanasius there, beginning a dependence of the Ethiopian church on the Egyptian patriarchate that lasted until 1959.

This source names Alexandria directly: "Letter 39, written by Athanasius of Alexandria in 367 for the annual Easter announcement to the churches under his authority, is the primary early Christian text listing the twenty seven books that..."

The city where the Corpus Hermeticum was chiefly composed.

This source names Alexandria directly: "provenance from the Eddé collection in Alexandria and its function as a repository for mummified falcon remains dedicated to the god."

This source names Alexandria directly: "Maria Dzielska's Hypatia of Alexandria is a scholarly biography of the fourth century Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician, written by a classicist working carefully to separate the..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "the late second century in Clement of Alexandria and in the epitaph of Abercius of Hierapolis."

This source names Alexandria directly: "the conquest with the fall of Alexandria in 642, ending Byzantine administration and opening Egypt to Islamic rule."

Philo of Alexandria's Platonic reading of Jewish scripture was produced in and shaped by the city's intellectual culture.

The sea's greatest ancient port, producing the Septuagint and early Christian theology

This source names Alexandria directly: "pageant staged by the Pentecostals of Alexandria, a United Pentecostal Church International congregation in Alexandria, Louisiana, dramatizing the life, death and resurrection of Jesus with worship..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "before capturing the great city of Alexandria in 641 following a negotiated surrender; a brief Byzantine attempt to retake Alexandria by sea in 645 to 646 was repelled, securing Egypt permanently..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "first century BCE, chiefly in Rome and Alexandria, reviving the older Pythagorean interest in number as the key to reality and the soul's journey through successive bodies, and combining it with..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "a different name on a farm in the Alexandria district of the Eastern Cape, where she died in 1898."

This source names Alexandria directly: "century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria, that all rational beings will eventually be restored to union with God."

This source names Alexandria directly: "text, likely composed in Greek in Alexandria in the early centuries of the Christian era, describing real and legendary animals and assigning each a moral or allegorical Christian meaning, and this..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "April 8, 2000, at the Pentecostals of Alexandria church in Alexandria, Louisiana, following a performance of the church's own annual Messiah pageant."

This source names Alexandria directly: "as an institutional record, is the Alexandria, Minnesota museum's own account of its founding and its custody of the Kensington Runestone, a runic inscribed stone reported found in 1898 and claimed..."

This source names Alexandria directly: "directly in translation: "Had Alexandria triumphed and not Rome, the extravagant and muddled stories that I have summarized here would be coherent, majestic, and perfectly ordinary." Used here for..."

The Arian controversy began with an Alexandrian presbyter, Arius, and was addressed at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE.

This source names Alexandria directly: "Valentinus, who taught in Rome and Alexandria and was, by some ancient accounts, briefly a candidate for the Roman bishopric."

Alexandria lies on Egypt's Mediterranean coast.

Alexandria's catechetical school and its Patriarchate made it a central seat of early and modern Christian authority.

Alexandria remains the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria.