Church History 4.22.3

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

Summary: Hegesippus (quoted): in Rome he compiled the succession of bishops; in every succession and city the teaching agrees with the law, prophets, and Lord.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:170–171

γενόμενος δὲ ἐν ῾Ρώμῃ “διαδοχὴν ἐποιησάμην μέχρις Ἀνικήτου, οὗ διάκονος “ἦν Ἐλεύθερος. καὶ παρὰ Ἀνικήτου διαδέχεται Σωτὴρ, μεθʼ ὃν Ελεύθερος. ἐν ἑκάστῃ δὲ διαδοχῇ καὶ ἐν ἑκάστῃ πόλει οὕτως ἔχει ὡς ὁ νόμος κηρύσσει καὶ οἱ προφῆται καὶ ὁ κύριος.”

English · Claude translation

And when I was in Rome I made a succession-list up to Anicetus, whose deacon was Eleutherus. And Soter succeeds Anicetus, and after him Eleutherus. And in every succession and in every city things are as the law proclaims, and the prophets, and the Lord.”

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Source

Dindorf 4:170–171 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Hegesippus (Hegesippus, Memoirs (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Hegesippus. “Made a succession” (διαδοχὴν ἐποιησάμην) may mean “compiled a succession-list” or “stayed there until”; the first is usual.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.22.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/22/3/).

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