Church History 5.24.1

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

Summary: The Asian bishops, led by Polycrates of Ephesus, defended their older custom in a letter to Victor.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:230

τῶν δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀσίας ἐπισκόπων, τὸ πάλαι πρότερον αὐτοῖς παραδοθὲν διαφυλάττειν ἔθος χρῆναι διισχυριζομένων, ἡγεῖτο Πολυκράτης, ὃς καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν ᾗ πρὸς Βίκτορα καὶ τὴν ῾Ρωμαίων ἐκκλησίαν διετυπώσατο γραφῇ τὴν εἰς αὐτὸν ἐλθοῦσαν παράδοσιν ἐκτέθειται διὰ τούτων

English · Claude translation

But the bishops in Asia, insisting that they must keep the custom handed down to them from of old, were led by Polycrates, who himself, in the letter he addressed to Victor and the church of the Romans, set out the tradition that had come down to him in these words:

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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, Fasting

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/1/).

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