Athanasius Banished to Trier

Date: November 7, 335 • Location: Trier, Germany

Athanasius, 20th pope of Alexandria, is banished to Trier on the charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.

Athanasius I of Alexandria, also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was an Egyptian Christian theologian and the 20th Patriarch of Alexandria. His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years.