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| Annianus the First Bishop of the Church of Alexandria after Mark.
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Chapter XXIV.—Annianus the First
Bishop of the Church of Alexandria after Mark.
1. When
Nero was in the eighth year of his reign,533
| 533 62
a.d. With this agrees Jerome’s version
of the Chron., while the Armenian version gives the seventh year
of Nero. |
Annianus534
| 534 Annianus, according to Bk. III. chap. 14, below, held his office
twenty-two years. In Apost. Const. VII. 46 he is said to have
been ordained by Mark as the first bishop of Alexandria. The Chron.
Orient. 89 (according to Westcott in the Dict. of Christ.
Biog.) reports that he was appointed by Mark after he had performed
a miracle upon him. He is commemorated in the Roman martyrology with
St. Mark, on April 25. | succeeded Mark the evangelist in the
administration of the parish of Alexandria.535
| 535 Upon
Mark’s connection with Egypt, see above, chap. 16, note
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