Noun athanasius has 1 sense

• athanasius(n = noun.person) athanasius the great, saint athanasius, st. athanasius - (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373);
is a kind of church father, father, father of the church, doctor, doctor of the church, saint, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer