Arius

Arius (280-336) was a presbyter of Alexandria, and founder of Arianism, which denied the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father in the so-called Trinity, a doctrine which hovered for a time between acceptance and rejection throughout the Catholic Church. He was condemned first by a local synod which met at Alexandria in 321, and then by a General Council at Nice in 325, which the Emperor Constantine attended in person. The author was banished to Illyricum, his writings burned, and the possession of them voted to be a crime. After three years he was recalled by Constantine, who ordered him to be restored. He was about to be readmitted into the Church when he died suddenly, by poison, alleged his friends − by the judgment of God, said his enemies.

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