Church History 4.5.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Telesphorus succeeded Xystus at Rome, and Eumenes succeeded at Alexandria.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:139–140

ἤδη δὲ δωδέκατον ἐχούσης ἔτος τῆς ἡγεμονίας Ἀδριανοῦ, Ξυστὸν δεκαέτη χρόνον ἀποπλήσαντα ἐπὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐπισκοπῆς ἕβδομος ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων διαδέχεται Τελεσφόρος, ἐνιαυτοῦ δὲ μεταξὺ καὶ μηνῶν διαγενομένου τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων παροικίας τὴν προστασίαν Εὐμένης ἕκτῳ κλήρῳ διαδέχεται, τοῦ πρὸ αὐτοῦ ἔτεσιν ἕνδεκα διαρκέσαντος.

English · Claude translation

When the reign of Hadrian was already in its twelfth year, Xystus, having completed ten years in the episcopate of the Romans, was succeeded by Telesphorus, seventh from the apostles; and after the interval of a year and some months, Eumenes succeeded, sixth in order, to the presidency of the community of the Alexandrians, his predecessor having lasted eleven years.

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Source

Dindorf 4:139–140 · 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. 4.5.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/5/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.5.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/5/5/).