Church History 4.19.1

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

Summary: Soter succeeded Anicetus at Rome, and Agrippinus succeeded Celadion at Alexandria.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:169–170

Ἤδη δὲ εἰς ὄγδοον ἐλαυνούσης ἔτος τῆς δηλουμένης ἡγεμονίας τῆς ῾Ρω- μαίων ἐκκλησίας τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν Ἀνίκητον ἕνδεκα τοῖς πᾶσιν ἔτεσι διελθόντα Σωτὴρ διαδέχεται. ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων παροικίας Κελαδίωνος τέτταρσιν ἐπὶ δέκα ἔτεσι προστάντος τὴν διαδοχὴν Ἀγριππῖνος δια- λαμβάνει.

English · Claude translation

When the reign in question was already entering its eighth year, Soter succeeded Anicetus in the episcopate of the church of the Romans, the latter having spent eleven years in all. And Agrippinus took up the succession of the community of the Alexandrians, Celadion having presided fourteen years.

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Source: Dindorf 4:169–170 · 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

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/19/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/19/1/).

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