Pope Theophilus of Alexandria

Theophilus of Alexandria (died 412) is Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, from 385 to 412.

He is regarded as a saint by the Coptic Orthodox Church.

He is a Coptic Pope at a time of conflict between the newly dominant Christians and the pagan establishment in Alexandria, each 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."

(Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, New York: The Modern Library, n.d., v. 2, p. 57 et seq.)

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