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  • From: "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>
  • To: "Kata Markon" <gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Mark and Alexandrine/African Christianity
  • Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:50:59 +0100


At 14:00 12/09/99 -0500, you wrote:
the topic of the author Mark as founder of Alexandrine/North African Christianity.
This is, I believe (no time right now to look this up), a tradition that
Clement of Alexandria believed in.

"Clement's letter says nothing of Mark's role as founder of the Alexandrian church. Indeed, it implies that the church there was already in existence when Mark arrived from Rome after Peter's death. Nothing is said of any earlier sojourn of Mark in Alexandria, though the wording of the fragment does not exclude that possibility"
---- Anchor Bible Dictionary ( art. by Birger A. Pearson on "Christianity in Egypt" )



Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros AT iol.ie






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