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Church History 7.28.3

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

Summary: Dionysius died in 264/5 and was succeeded by Maximus.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:332

ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Διονύσιος τελευτᾷ, κατὰ τὸ δωδέκατον ἔτος τῆς Γαλλιηνοῦ βασιλείας, προστὰς τῆς κατʼ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐπισκοπῆς ἔτεσιν ἑπτακαίδεκα· διαδέχεται δὲ αὐτὸν Μάξιμος.

English · Claude translation

At this time Dionysius died, in the twelfth year of Gallienus's reign, having presided over the episcopate of Alexandria for seventeen years; and Maximus succeeded him.

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Source
Dindorf 4:332 · 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. 7.28.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/28/3/).

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