Church History 8.13.3

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

Summary: The most famous martyrs of Phoenicia were Bishop Tyrannion of Tyre, the presbyter Zenobius of Sidon, and Bishop Silvanus of Emesa.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:369

τῶν δʼ ἐπὶ Φοινίκης μαρτύρων γένοιντʼ ἂν ἐπισημότατοι τὰ πάντα θεοφιλεῖς τῶν λογικῶν Χριστοῦ θρεμμάτων ποιμένες, Τυραννίων ἐπίσκοπος τῆς κατὰ Τυρὸν ἐκκλησίας, πρεσβύτερός τε τῆς κατὰ Σιδῶνα Ζηνόβιος, καὶ ἔτι Σιλβανὸς τῶν ἀμφὶ τὴν Ἔμισαν ἐκκλησιῶν ἐπίσκοπος.

English · Claude translation

Of the martyrs in Phoenicia, the most distinguished would be those shepherds of Christ's rational flocks, dear to God in every way: Tyrannion, bishop of the church at Tyre; Zenobius, a presbyter of the church at Sidon; and also Silvanus, bishop of the churches around Emesa.

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Source: Dindorf 4:369 · 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: Martyrdom, Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/3/).

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