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An 1842 edition of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History. The Ecclesiastical History (Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία, Ekklēsiastikḕ Historía; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica), also known as The History of the Church and Church History, is a 4th-century chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century, composed by ...
In his Church History or Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius wrote the second surviving history of the Christian Church as a chronologically ordered account, based on earlier sources, complete from the period of the Apostles to his own epoch. [45] The time scheme correlated the history with the reigns of the Roman Emperors, and the scope was broad.
Eusebius, a fourth-century Bishop of Caesarea, is sometimes called the "Father of Church History". His major work is the ten-book Church History, covering Christian history from the death of Christ to the 323 victory of Constantine over Licinius. The work is heavily partial towards Constantine, minimizing his faults and presenting him in the ...
161–180), recorded in a contemporary letter preserved in Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, book 5, chapter 1, which was written 150 years later in Palestine. Gregory of Tours also describes the persecution in the 6th century in De Gloria martyrum.
This template currently supports the Church Histories of Eusebius of Caesarea, Socrates of Constantinople, Sozomen, and Theodoret of Cyrus, and links to English translations. Examples of each are given below: {{Church History Citation|Sozomen|book=1|chapter=2}} yields this footnote. [1]
The purpose of the history is to continue the work of Eusebius of Caesarea (1.1). It relates in simple Greek language what the Church experienced from the days of Constantine to the writer's time. Ecclesiastical dissensions occupy the foreground, for when the Church is at peace, there is nothing for the church historian to relate (7.48.7).