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Church History 6.8.7

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

Summary: Caracalla succeeded Severus; the confessor Alexander became bishop of Jerusalem while Narcissus still lived.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:250–251

ἐπὶ δέκα δὲ καὶ ὀκτὼ ἔτεσι τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπικρατήσαντα Σεβῆρον Ἀντωνῖνος ὁ παῖς διαδέχεται. ἐν τούτῳ δὲ τῶν κατὰ τὸν διωγμὸν ἀνδρισαμένων καὶ μετὰ τοὺς ἐν ὁμολογίαις ἀγῶνας διὰ προνοίας θεοῦ πεφυλαγμένων εἷς τις ὢν ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος, ὃν ἀρτίως ἐπίσκοπον τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐκκλησίας ἐδηλώσαμεν, οἷα ταῖς ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ διαπρέψας ὁμολογίαις, τῆς δηλωθείσης ἐπισκοπῆς ἀξιοῦται, ἔτι Ναρκίσσου, ὃς ἦν αὐτοῦ πρότερος, περιόντος τῷ βίω.

English · Claude translation

When Severus had held power for eighteen years, his son Antoninus succeeded him. At this time Alexander, one of those who had shown courage in the persecution and after the contests of confession had been preserved by God's providence, whom we have just shown to be bishop of the church in Jerusalem, was deemed worthy of that episcopate because he had distinguished himself in confessions for Christ, while Narcissus, his predecessor, was still alive.

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Source
Dindorf 4:250–251 · 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, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Antoninus” is Caracalla (211).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/8/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/8/7/).

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