Church History 5.12.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:211

Ἐπὶ τούτων τῆς Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπος ὁ παρὰ πολλοῖς εἰσέτι νῦν βεβοημένος Νάρκισσος ἐγνωρίζετο, πεντεκαιδεκάτην ἄγων διαδοχὴν ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν Ἰουδαίων κατὰ Ἀδριανὸν πολιορκίας, ἐξ οὗ δὴ πρῶτον τὴν αὐτόθι ἐκκλησίαν ἐξ ἐθνῶν συστῆναι μετὰ τοὺς ἐκ περιτομῆς, καθηγήσασθαί τε αὐτῶν πρῶτον ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἐπίσκοπον Μάρκον ἐδηλώσαμεν.

English · Claude translation

At this time Narcissus, still celebrated by many even now, was known as bishop of the church at Jerusalem, holding the fifteenth place in succession from the siege of the Jews under Hadrian, from which time, as we have shown, the church there was first composed of Gentiles after those of the circumcision, and Mark was the first Gentile bishop to lead them.

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Source

Dindorf 4:211 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

See Church History 4.6.4.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): ἐξ οὐ δὴ → ἐξ οὗ δὴ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/12/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/12/1/).