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Arianism
The Arian controversy
c.318 – c.700 CE · Abrahamic · Extinct · Roman empire; later the Germanic kingdoms
IV. THE CLASSICAL & IMPERIAL WORLD — c.200 BCE – 500 CE
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- c.318 CE Arius clashes with Bishop Alexander of Alexandria.
- 325 CE Council of Nicaea, summoned by Constantine, condemns Arius and produces the creed with homoousios. Arius is exiled.
- 328–373 CE Athanasius is exiled five times as imperial favour swings back and forth. For decades Arianism is the establishment position, not the fringe.
- c.341 CE Ulfilas is consecrated bishop to the Goths, invents the Gothic alphabet and translates the Bible — as an Arian. The Germanic peoples are therefore converted to Arian Christianity.
- 381 CE Council of Constantinople reaffirms Nicaea and finalises the creed still recited today.
- c.400–589 CE Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians and Lombards are Arian, ruling Catholic populations — a religious divide that shapes the politics of the entire post-Roman West.
- 496 CE Clovis, king of the Franks, converts directly to Nicene Christianity rather than Arianism, which is why the Franks and not the Goths become the papacy's partner.
- 589 CE The Third Council of Toledo: Visigothic Spain converts to Catholicism. Arianism effectively ends.
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