Church History 4.5.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Eusebius lists the fifteen Jewish-Christian bishops of Jerusalem from James to Judas.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:139

διαλελοιπότων δʼ οὐν τηνικαῦτα τῶν ἐκ περιτομῆς ἐπισκόπων τοὺς ἀπὸ πρώτου νῦν αναγκαῖον ἂν εἴη καταλέξαι. πρῶτος τοιγαροῦν Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ κυρίου λεγόμενος ἀδελφὸς ἦν, μεθʼ ὃν δεύτερος Συμεὼν, τρίτος Ἰοῦστος, Ζακχαῖος τέταρτος, πέμπτος Τωβίας, ἕκτος Βενιαμὶν, Ἰωάννης ἕβδομος, ὄγδοος Ματθίας, ἔνατος Φίλιππος, δέκατος Σενέκας, ἑνδέκατος Ἰοῦστος, Λευὶς δωδέκατος, Ἐφρῆς τρισκαιδέκατος, τεσσαρεσκαιδέκατος Ἰωσὴφ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι πεντεκαιδέκατος Ἰούδας.

English · Claude translation

Since the bishops of the circumcision ceased at that time, it would now be necessary to list them from the first. The first, then, was James, called the brother of the Lord; after him the second was Simeon; the third Justus; Zacchaeus the fourth; the fifth Tobias; the sixth Benjamin; John the seventh; the eighth Matthias; the ninth Philip; the tenth Seneca; the eleventh Justus; Levi the twelfth; Ephres the thirteenth; the fourteenth Joseph; and last of all the fifteenth Judas.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:139 · 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

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/5/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/5/3/).