Church History 2.24.1

Summary: In Nero's eighth year Annianus succeeded Mark as leader of the Alexandrian church.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:81

Νέρωνος δὲ ὄγδοον ἄγοντος τῆς βασιλείας ἔτος πρῶτος μετὰ Μάρκον τὸν εὐαγγελιστὴν τῆς ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ παροικίας Ἀννιανὸς τὴν λειτουργίαν διαδέχεται.

In the eighth year of Nero's reign, Annianus was the first after Mark the evangelist to succeed to the ministry of the community in Alexandria.

Source: Dindorf 4:81 · 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. 2.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/24/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/24/1/).