Church History 3.21.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:107–108

Μικρῷ δὲ πλέον ἐνιαυτοῦ βασιλεύσαντα Νέρουαν διαδέχεται τραϊανός, οὗ δὴ πρῶτον ἕτο ἦν, ἐν ᾧ τῆς κατʼ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν παροικίας Ἀβίλιο δέκα πρὸς τρισὶν ἔτεσιν ἡγησάμενον διαδέχεται Κε δῶν. τρίτος οὗτος τῶν αὐτόθι μετὰ τὸν πρῶτον Ἀννιανὸν προέστη. ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Ῥωμαίων εἰσέτι Κλη μὴς ἡγεῖτο, τρίτον καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπέχων τῶν τῇδε μετ Παῦλόν τε καὶ Πέτρον ἐπισκοπευσάντων βαθμόν Λίνος δὲ ὁ πρῶτος ἠν, καὶ μετʼ αὐτὸν Ἀνέγκλητος.

English · Claude translation

After Nerva had reigned a little more than a year, Trajan succeeded him. It was in his first year that Abilius, who had led the community in Alexandria for thirteen years, was succeeded by Cerdo; he was the third to preside there after the first, Annianus. At this time Clement was still leading the Romans, holding the third place among those who were bishops there after Paul and Peter; Linus was the first, and after him Anencletus.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:107–108 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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

Notes

Translation notes

The digital text is damaged in several words (Ἀ(??)νιανὸν for Ἀννιανὸν).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (unread letters in the digital text; reading certain from context): Ἀ(??) νιανὸν → Ἀννιανὸν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.21.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/21/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.21.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/21/1/).