Church History 4.11.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Pius succeeded Hyginus at Rome; at Alexandria Mark and then Celadion succeeded Eumenes.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:148–149

ἀλλὰ γὰρ μετὰ τέταρτον τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς ἔτος ῾Υγίνου τελευτήσαντος Πίος ἐπὶ Ῥώμης ἐγχειρίζεται τὴν λειτουργίαν. κατά γε μὴν τὴν ’Αλεξάνδρειαν Μάρκος ἀναδείκνυται ποιμὴν, Εὐμενοῦς ἔτη τὰ πάντα δέκα πρὸς τρισὶν ἐκπλήσαντος, τοῦ τε Μάρκου ἐπὶ δέκα ἔτη τῆς λειτουργίας ἀναπαυσαμένου Κελαδίων τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων ἐκκλησίας τὴν λειτουργίαν παραλαμβάνει.

English · Claude translation

But when Hyginus died after the fourth year of his episcopate, Pius was entrusted with the ministry at Rome. At Alexandria Mark was appointed pastor, Eumenes having completed thirteen years in all; and when Mark rested after ten years of ministry, Celadion took over the ministry of the church of the Alexandrians.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:148–149 · 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. 4.11.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/11/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.11.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/11/6/).