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Church History 5.9.1

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

Summary: Commodus became emperor, and Julian succeeded Agrippinus as bishop of Alexandria.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:209

Ἐννέα δὲ καὶ δέκα ἔτεσι τῇ βασιλείᾳ διαρκέσαντος Ἀντωνίνου, Κόμοδος τὴν ἡγεμονίαν παραλαμβάνει, οὗ κατὰ τὸ πρῶτον ἔτος τῶν κατʼ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐκκλησιῶν Ἰουλιανὸς ἐγχειρίζεται τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν, ἐπὶ δυοκαίδεκα ἔτεσιν Ἀγριππίνου τὴν λειτουργίαν ἀναπλήσαντος.

English · Claude translation

When Antoninus had continued in the reign for nineteen years, Commodus received the government. In his first year Julian was entrusted with the episcopate of the churches at Alexandria, after Agrippinus had fulfilled the ministry for twelve years.

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Source
Dindorf 4:209 · 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

  • Commodus's accession was in 180.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/9/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/9/1/).

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