Church History 5.23.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Letters survive from synods in Palestine, Rome, Pontus, and Gaul.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:230

φέρεται δʼ εἰσέτι νῦν τῶν κατὰ Παλαιστίνην τηνικάδε συγκεκροτημένων γραφὴ, ὧν προυτέτακτο Θεόφιλος τῆς ἐν Καισαρείᾳ παροικίας ἐπίσκοπος καὶ Νάρκισσος τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις· καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ ῾Ρώμης δὲ ὁμοίως ἄλλη περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ζητήματος, ἐπίσκοπον Βίκτορα δηλοῦσα· τῶν τε κατὰ Πόντον ἐπισκόπων, ὧν Πάλμας ὡς ἀρχαιότατος προυτέτακτο, καὶ τῶν κατὰ Γαλλίαν δὲ παροικιῶν, ἃς Εἰρήναιος ἐπεσκόπει·

English · Claude translation

There is still extant a letter of those assembled at that time in Palestine, over whom Theophilus, bishop of the community in Caesarea, and Narcissus, of that in Jerusalem, presided; and likewise another of those at Rome on the same question, bearing the name of Bishop Victor; and one of the bishops in Pontus, over whom Palmas presided as the eldest; and of the communities in Gaul, over which Irenaeus was bishop;

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:230 · 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. 5.23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/23/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/23/3/).