Saint Dionysius of Alexandria named the Great 14th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark from December 28th 248 until his death on March 8th 264 after seventeen years as a bishop. He was the first Pope to hold the title the Great (before a Bishop of Rome even). Dionysius’ large surviving correspondence provides most of our information about him. Only one original letter survives to this day; the remaining letters are excerpted in the works of Eusebius.
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