341

This page relates to the year 341 Calendrier Julien.

Events

With the Council of Antioche (arien), the Catholic church again questions the divinity of the Christ. Dismissal of the bishop Athanase of Alexandria, rempacé by the bishop arien Georges (or Gregoire de Cappadoce).
Saint Athanase settles with Trier. It introduces the monachism in occident.
the emperor Constant Ier prohibits the pagan sacrifices and the magic, under penalty of death.
Countryside of Constant Ier against the Frank (until in 342). Constant establishes a great number of Francs in Toxandrie with the responsibility of defend the access of the country against the other invaders.
Of the thousands of Christian S is carried out with Séleucie of the Tiger in Mésopotamie.
Fine of the construction of the cathedral of Antioche.
Wulfila, bishop arien, begins the evangelization of the Goths in the area of the delta of the the Danube.

Between 341 and 346, the Syrian Christian Frumence d' Aksoum (Abba Salama), having converted the king Ezana of Aksoum is crowned first bishop of Ethiopia by saint Athanase, bishop of Alexandria.
the Roman Emperor Constancy, in favor of the Arianisme to which Athanase is opposed, sends to an embassy directed by Theophilus the Indian. He addresses a letter to the king Ezana and to his Saizanas brother to ask them to drive out Frumentius which was not crowned by the patriarch arien Georges of Alexandria. The king does not yield and Frumentius preserves its station until its death towards 360, while Theophilus in vain tries to rejoin with his cause some Christians.
Construction of the royal palace of Aksoum and the first cathedral of the kingdom.

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