Pope Dionysius of Alexandria

Head of the Church in Alexandria from 248 to 264

b. 190 · d. 8 Mar 264

14th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria (Coptic line) · 248–264

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.

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