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Church History 3.4.10

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: Dionysius of Corinth says Dionysius the Areopagite was the first bishop of Athens.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:87

ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ τὸν Ἀρεοπαγίτην ἐκεῖνον, Διονύσιος ὄνομα αὐτῷ, ὃν ἐν Πράξεσι μετὰ τὴν ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ πρὸς Ἀθηναίους Παύλου δημηγορίαν πρῶτον πιστεῦσαι ἀνέγραψεν ὁ Λουκᾶς) τῆς ἐν Ἀθήναις ἐκκλησίας πρῶτον ἐπίσκοπον ἀρχαίων τις ἕτερος Διονύσιος τῆς Κορινθίων παροικίας ποιμὴν ἱστορεῖ γεγονέναι.

English · Claude translation

In addition, that Areopagite named Dionysius (whom Luke recorded in the Acts as the first to believe after Paul's address to the Athenians on the Areopagus) is recorded by another of the ancients, Dionysius, pastor of the community of the Corinthians, to have been the first bishop of the church in Athens.

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Source
Dindorf 4:87 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Dionysius of Corinth, Letter to the Athenians (Dionysius of Corinth (letters)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to Acts 17:34; the source is Dionysius of Corinth (see 4.23.3).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.4.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/4/10/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.4.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/4/10/).

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