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Saint Athanasius of Alexandria and the Roman Primacy It should be remembered that it was Pope Julius I who, having quashed the unjust deposition of Athanasius, returned him to his patriarchal throne. So much Socrates, and Sozomenus, in narrating the fact, expressly attribute it to the Pope's Prime Minister's Authority on the whole Church: "οἶα δὲ τῆς πάντων κηδεμονίας αὐτῷ προσηκούσης διὰ τὴν ἀηας τ mem that is, "Since the care of all belonged to him, due to the dignity of the see, he restored each their own church [Athanasius of Alexandria and Paul of Constantinople]"