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Church History 6.26.1

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

Summary: In 231/2 Origen moved to Caesarea; Heraclas succeeded Demetrius as bishop of Alexandria.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:272

Ἔτος δʼ ἦν τοῦτο δέκατον τῆς δηλουμένης ἡγεμονίας, καθʼ ὃ τὴν ἀπʼ Ἀλεξανδρείας μετανάστασιν ἐπὶ τὴν Καισάρειαν ὁ Ὠριγένης ποιησάμενος, Ἡρακλᾷ τὸ τῆς κατηχήσεως τῶν αὐτόθι διδασκαλεῖον καταλείπει. οὐκ εἰς μακρὸν δὲ καὶ Δημήτριος ὁ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπος τελευτᾷ, ἐφʼ ὅλοις ἔτεσι τρισὶ καὶ τεσσαράκοντα τῇ λειτουργίᾳ διαρκέσας· διαδέχεται δʼ αὐτὸν ὁ Ἡρακλᾶς. διέπρεπε δὲ ἐν τούτῳ Φιρμιλλιανὸς, Καισαρείας τῆς Καππαδοκῶν ἐπίσκοπος,

English · Claude translation

It was the tenth year of the reign mentioned when Origen moved from Alexandria to Caesarea, leaving the catechetical school there to Heraclas. Not long after, Demetrius, bishop of the church of the Alexandrians, died, having continued in the ministry for forty-three full years; and Heraclas succeeded him. At this time Firmilian, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, was distinguished,

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Source
Dindorf 4:272 · 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)
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Church office

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Translation notes

  • The sentence continues in 6.27.1.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/26/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/26/1/).

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