Church History 6.29.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The people acclaimed Fabian bishop; Babylas became bishop of Antioch, and Dionysius head of the Alexandrian school.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:274

ἐφʼ ᾧ τὸν πάντα λαὸν ὥσπερ ὑφʼ ἑνὸς πνεύματος θείου κινηθέντα ὁμόσε προθυμίᾳ πάσῃ καὶ μιᾷ ψυχῇ ἄξιον ἐπιβοῆσαι, καὶ ἀμελλήτως ἐπὶ τὸν θρόνον τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς λαβόντας αὐτὸν ἐπιθεῖναι. τότε δὴ καὶ τοῦ κατʼ Ἀντιόχειαν ἐπισκόπου Ζεβίνου τὸν βίον μεταλλάξαντος Βαβύλας τὴν ἀρχὴν διαδέχεται, ἔν τε Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ μετὰ Δημήτριον Ἡρακλᾶ τὴν λειτουργίαν παρειληφότος τῆς τῶν αὐτόθι κατηχήσεως τὴν διατριβὴν διαδέχεται Διονύσιος, εἷς καὶ οὗτος τῶν Ὠριγένους γενόμενος φοιτητῶν.

English · Claude translation

Thereupon the whole people, as if moved by one divine Spirit, with all eagerness and one soul cried out, “Worthy!”, and without delay took him and placed him on the episcopal throne. At that time too, when Zebinus, bishop of Antioch, departed this life, Babylas succeeded to the office; and at Alexandria, when Heraclas had received the ministry after Demetrius, Dionysius, who was also one of Origen's pupils, succeeded to the catechetical school there.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:274 · 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. 6.29.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/29/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.29.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/29/4/).