Church History 7.29.1

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

Summary: A final synod condemned and excommunicated Paul of Samosata (ca. 268).

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:332–333

καθʼ ὃν τελευταίας συγκροτηθείσης πλεί- στῶν ὅσων ἐπισκόπων συνόδου φωραθεὶς καὶ πρὸς ἀπάντων ἤδη σαφῶς καταγνωσθεὶς ἑτεροδοξίαν ὁ τῆς κατὰ Ἀντιόχειαν αἱρέσεως ἀρχηγὸς τῆς ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας ἀποκηρύττεται.

English · Claude translation

in whose time a final synod of very many bishops was assembled, and the leader of the heresy at Antioch, detected and now clearly condemned by all for heterodoxy, was excommunicated from the catholic church under heaven.

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Source: Dindorf 4:332–333 · 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: Heresy, Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/29/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/29/1/).

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