Church History 6.29.1

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

Summary: At Rome Anteros succeeded Pontianus and, a month later, Fabian succeeded Anteros.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:273

Γορδιανοῦ δὲ μετὰ Μαξιμῖνον τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίαν διαδεξαμένου, τῆς κατὰ Ῥώμην ἐκκλησίας Ποντιανὸν ἔτεσιν ἕξ ἐπισκοπεύσαντα διαδέχεται Ἀντέρως, καὶ τοῦτον Φαβιανὸς ἐπὶ μῆνα τῇ λειτουργίᾳ διακονησάμενον.

English · Claude translation

When Gordian had succeeded Maximin in the rule of the Romans, Anteros succeeded Pontianus, who had been bishop of the church at Rome for six years, and Fabian succeeded Anteros after he had served in the ministry for a month.

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Source: Dindorf 4:273 · 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. 6.29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/29/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/29/1/).

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