Church History 7.32.21 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Anatolius was first ordained coadjutor at Caesarea, but was kept by Laodicea on the death of Eusebius.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:345

τούτῳ πρῶτος ὁ τῆς Παλαιστινῶν Καισαρείας ἐπίσκοπος Θεότεκνος χεῖρας εἰς ἐπισκοπὴν ἐπιτέθεικε, διάδοχον ἑαυτοῦ μετὰ τελευτὴν ποριεῖσθαι τῇ ἰδίᾳ παροικίᾳ προμνώμενος. καὶ δὴ ἐπὶ σμικρόν τινα χρόνον ἄμφω τῆς αὐτῆς προύστησαν ἐκκλησίας, ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν τῆς κατὰ Παῦλον συνόδου καλούσης, τὴν Λαοδικέων πόλιν παριὼν πρὸς τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτόθι κοιμηθέντος Εὐσεβίου κεκράτηται·

English · Claude translation

Theotecnus, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, was the first to lay hands on him for the episcopate, intending to secure him as his own successor in his community after his death. And for a short time both presided over the same church. But when the synod about Paul summoned him to Antioch, as he passed through the city of the Laodiceans he was retained there by the brothers, Eusebius having fallen asleep.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:345 · 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

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/21/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/21/).