Church History 6.11.1

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

Summary: When Narcissus grew too old, God called Alexander to share his office.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:253

Καὶ δὴ μηκέθʼ οἵου τε ὄντος λειτουργεῖν διὰ λιπαρὸν γῆρας, τὸν εἰρημένον Ἀλέξανδρον, ἐπίσκοπον ἑτέρας ὑπάρχοντα παροικίας, οἰκονομία θεοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν ἅμα τῷ Ναρκίσσῳ λειτουργίαν ἐκάλει, κατὰ ἀποκάλυψιν νύκτωρ αὐτῷ διʼ ὁράματος φανεῖσαν.

English · Claude translation

When he could no longer perform his ministry because of extreme old age, the providence of God called Alexander, mentioned above, who was bishop of another community, to the ministry together with Narcissus, through a revelation that appeared to him at night in a vision.

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Source: Dindorf 4:253 · 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

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/11/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/11/1/).

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