Church History

In the tenth year of the reign of Commodus, Victor [1678] succeeded Eleutherus, [1679] the latter having held the episcopate for thirteen years. In the same year, after Julian [1680] had completed his tenth year, Demetrius [1681] received the charge of the parishes at Alexandria. At this time the above-mentioned Serapion, [1682] the eighth from the apostles, was still well known as bishop of the church at Antioch. Theophilus [1683] presided at Cæsarea in Palestine; and Narcissus, [1684] whom we have mentioned before, still had charge of the church at Jerusalem. Bacchylus [1685] at the same time was bishop of Corinth in Greece, and Polycrates [1686] of the parish of Ephesus. And besides these a multitude of others, as is likely, were then prominent. But we have given the names of those alone, the soundness of whose faith has come down to us in writing.