Church History 5.22.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:228–229

Δεκάτῳ γε μὴν τῆς Κομόδου βασιλείας ἔτει δέκα πρὸς τρισὶν ἔτεσι τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν λελειτουργηκότα Ἐλεύθερον διαδέχεται Βίκτωρ· ἐν ᾧ καὶ Ἰουλιανοῦ δέκατον ἔτος ἀναπλήσαντος τῶν κατʼ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν παροικιῶν τὴν λειτουργίαν ἐγχειρίζεται Δημήτριος· καθʼ οὓς καὶ τῆς Ἀντιοχέων ἐκκλησίας ὄγδοος ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων ὁ πρόσθεν ἤδη δεδηλωμένος ἔτι τότε Σαραπίων ἐπίσκοπος ἐγνωρίζετο· Καισαρείας δὲ τῆς ἐπὶ Παλαιστίνῃ καθηγεῖτο Θεόφιλος. καὶ Νάρκισσος δὲ ὁμοίως, οὗ καὶ πρόσθεν ὁ λόγος μνήμην ἐποιήσατο, τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐκκλησίας ἔτι τότε τὴν λειτουργίαν εἶχεν. Κορίνθου δὲ τῆς καθʼ Ἑλλάδα κατὰ τοὺς αὐτοὺς χρόνους ἐπίσκοπος ἦν Βάκχυλλος, καὶ τῆς ἐν Ἐφέσω παροικίας Πολυκράτης, καὶ ἄλλοι δὲ, ὥς γε εἰκὸς, ἐπὶ τούτοις μυρίοι κατὰ τούσδε διέπρεπον. ὧν γε μὴν ἔγγραφος ἡ τῆς πίστεως εἰς ἡμὰς κατῆλθεν ὀρθοδοξία, τούτους εἰκότως ὀνομαστὶ κατελέξαμεν.

English · Claude translation

In the tenth year of Commodus's reign Victor succeeded Eleutherus, who had held the episcopate for thirteen years. In the same year, when Julian had completed his tenth year, Demetrius was entrusted with the ministry of the communities of Alexandria. At this time Serapion, already mentioned, was still known as bishop of the church of the Antiochenes, the eighth from the apostles. Theophilus presided over Caesarea in Palestine; and Narcissus likewise, whom our account has mentioned before, still held the ministry of the church in Jerusalem. At the same time Bacchyllus was bishop of Corinth in Greece, and Polycrates of the community of Ephesus; and besides these countless others, as is likely, were prominent then. But we have rightly named only those whose orthodoxy of faith has come down to us in writing.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:228–229 · 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

A noun is missing after τὴν in the digital text; λειτουργίαν (“ministry”) is supplied, as in the phrase used of Narcissus in the same section.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (word omitted in the digital text): παροικιῶν τὴν ἐγχειρίζεται → παροικιῶν τὴν λειτουργίαν ἐγχειρίζεται.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.22.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/22/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.22.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/22/1/).