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Church History 5.6.4

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

Summary: Irenaeus continues the Roman list to Eleutherus, the twelfth bishop after the apostles.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:204

καὶ μετὰ βραχέα φησὶ “τὸν δὲ “Κλήμεντα τοῦτον διαδέχεται Εὐάρεστος, καὶ τὸν “Εὐάρεστον Ἀλέξανδρος. εἶθʼ οὕτως ἕκτος ἀπὸ τῶν “ἀποστόλων καθίσταται Ξύστὸς, μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον Τε- “λεσφόρος, ὃς καὶ ἐνδόξως ἐμαρτύρησεν· ἔπειτα Ὑγῖ- “νος, εἶτα Πίος, μεθʼ ὃν Ἀνίκητος. διαδεξαμένου “τὸν Ἀνίκητον Σωτῆρος νῦν δωδεκάτῳ τόπῳ τὸν τῆς “ἐπισκοπῆς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων κατέχει κλῆρον Ἐλεύ- “θερος.

English · Claude translation

And shortly after he says: “Evarestus succeeded this Clement, and Alexander succeeded Evarestus. Then Xystus was appointed, sixth from the apostles, and after him Telesphorus, who also bore glorious witness as a martyr; then Hyginus, then Pius, after whom Anicetus. Soter having succeeded Anicetus, Eleutherus now holds the lot of the episcopate in the twelfth place from the apostles.

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Source
Dindorf 4:204 · 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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 3.3.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Church office, Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.3.3.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/6/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/6/4/).

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