Theophilus of Alexandria was the twenty-third Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. He became Pope at a time of conflict between the newly dominant Christians and the pagan establishment in Alexandria each of which was supported by a segment of the Alexandrian populace. Edward Gibbon described him as …the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue a bold bad man whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.
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