Office Christianity
Patriarch of Alexandria
Patriarchatus Alexandrinus la
Archbishop of Alexandria, Egypt; includes the designation "pope"
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
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Succession in office
Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 5 holders
- 2 gaps
- 2 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1st 43 CE – 68 CE Mark the Evangelist credited author of the Gospel of Mark and Christian saint; traditionally identified with John Mark (20-68) -
Gap about 245 years with no holder recorded
19th 313 CE – 326 CE Pope Alexandros of Alexandria Patriarch of Alexandria -
Gap about 86 years with no holder recorded
from 412 CE Cyril of Alexandria Patriarchate of Alexandria from 412 to 444
No dates recorded 2
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Dates unrecorded Athanasius of Alexandria Pope of Alexandria from 328 to 373 (296–373) -
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Dates unrecorded Pope Theophilus of Alexandria Patriarch of Alexandria from 384 to 412
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
0 statements on this record
This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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