Church History 7.30.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:333–334

“Διονυσίῳ καὶ Μαξίμῳ καὶ τοῖς κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην πᾶσι συλλειτουργοῖς ἡμῶν ἐπισκόποις ‘καὶ πρεσβυτέροις καὶ διακόνοις, καὶ πάσῃ τῇ ὑπὸ “τὸν οὐρανὸν καθολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, Ἕλενος καὶ ῾Υμέ- “ναιος καὶ Θεόφιλος καὶ Θεότεκνος καὶ Μάξιμος, Πρόκλος, Νικομᾶς καὶ Αἰλιανὸς καὶ Παῦλος καὶ “Βωλανὸς καὶ Πρωτογενὴς καὶ Ἱέραξ καὶ Εὐτύχιος “καὶ Θεόδωρος καὶ Μαλχίων καὶ Λούκιος, καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ πάντες οἶ σὺν ἡμῖν παροικοῦντες τὰς ἐγγὺς “πόλεις καὶ ἔθνη ἐπίσκοποι καὶ πρεσβύτεροι καὶ διάκονοι καὶ αἱ ἐκκλησίαι τοῦ θεοῦ ἀγαπητοῖς “ἀδελφοῖς ἐν κυρίῳ χαίρειν.

English · Claude translation

“To Dionysius and Maximus and all our fellow ministers throughout the world, bishops, presbyters, and deacons, and to the whole catholic church under heaven: Helenus, Hymenaeus, Theophilus, Theotecnus, Maximus, Proclus, Nicomas, Aelianus, Paul, Bolanus, Protogenes, Hierax, Eutychius, Theodore, Malchion, and Lucius, and all the others who with us dwell in the neighbouring cities and nations, bishops, presbyters, and deacons, and the churches of God, to the beloved brothers in the Lord, greeting.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:333–334 · 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

Ep. syn. Ant. (Synodal Letter against Paul of Samosata) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the synodal letter of the Council of Antioch against Paul of Samosata (ca. 268; to 7.30.17).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing iota subscript in the digital text): πάσῃ τῆ ὑπὸ → πάσῃ τῇ ὑπὸ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/2/).