Church History 4.20.1

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

Summary: Theophilus was sixth bishop of Antioch after Heros, Cornelius, and Eros.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:170

Τηνικαῦτα καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀντιοχέων ἐκκλησίας Θεόφιλος ἕκτος ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐγνωρίζετο, τετάρτου μὲν τῶν ἐκεῖσε μετὰ Ἥρωνα καταστάντος Κορνηλίου, μετὰ δὲ αὐτὸν πέμπτῳ βαθμῷ τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν Ἔρωτος διαδεξαμένου.

English · Claude translation

At that time too Theophilus was known in the church of Antioch as the sixth from the apostles; Cornelius had been appointed there fourth after Heros, and after him Eros had succeeded to the episcopate in the fifth place.

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Source: Dindorf 4:170 · 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)
Topics: Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/20/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/20/1/).

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