Church History 6.23.3

Summary: Pontianus succeeded Urban at Rome, and Zebinus succeeded Philetus at Antioch.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:268

τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἐχόντων Οὐρβανὸν ἐπισκοπεύσαντα τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἔτεσιν ὀκτὼ διαδέχεται Ποντιανὸς, τῆς δʼ Ἀντιοχέων μετὰ Φιλητὸν Ζεβῖνος.

Things being so, Urban, after being bishop of the church for eight years, was succeeded by Pontianus, and at Antioch Zebinus succeeded Philetus.

Source: Dindorf 4:268 · 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

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/23/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/23/3/).