Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 12.14-26
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Καισαρείας

, and

Caesarea

are directly attested at Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 12.14-26. This passage was written ca. ca. 810-814 C.E. possibly in Cyzicus. Theophanes, born to noble parents in Constantinople, was raised in the Palace under Constantine V (740-775 C.E.) He spent much of his career as a member and leader of monastic communities around the Sea of Marmara, before his condemnation and exile to Samothrace in 817 C.E. by Leo V the Armenian during the controversies over Iconoclasm. At the request of George Syncellus, Theophanes wrote a continuation of his chronicle from Diocletian down to Michael I Rhangabes (284-813 C.E.), in the usual dry style and format of Byzantine chronography. In his entry for the year 304/5, he records martydoms under Maximinus Daza, including Pamphilus of Caesarea, following the listing by Eusebius in his Church History (see Related Texts).

Τῷ δ’ αὐτῷ ἔτει Πέτρος, ὁ ἐπίσκοπος Ἀλεξανδρείας, ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ ὑπάρχων προστάγματι Μαξιμιανοῦ τοῦ Γαλλερίου καὶ Μαξιμίνου, τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτμηθεὶς ἐνδόξως ἐμαρτύρησεν· ὅστις τὸν Ἄρειον διάκονον ὄντα τῆς αὐτοῦ ἐκκλησίας ἀκοινώνητον ἐποίησεν· ὅστις μετὰ ταῦτα κακοδόξου αἱρέσεως προστάτης γεγονὼς πολλοὺς τῆς εὐσεβείας ἀπέστησεν. πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι ἐπὶ τούτων τῶν τυράννων τὸν ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ μαρτυρικὸν στέφανον ἀνεδήσαντο, ὧν εἰσι Φιλέας ἐπίσκοπος Θμούεως τῆς Αἰγύπτου, Πηλεὺς καὶ Νεῖλος ἐπίσκοποι τῆς Αἰγύπτου, Ἄνθιμος ἐπίσκοπος Νικομηδείας, Τυραννίων ἐπίσκοπος Τύρου, Σιλουανὸς ἐπίσκοπος Ἐμέσης, καὶ Σιλουανὸς ἐπίσκοπος Γάζης, Λουκιανὸς πρεσβύτερος Ἀντιοχείας, Ζηνόβιος πρεσβύτερος Σιδῶνος, Πάμφιλος πρεσβύτερος Καισαρείας, καὶ ἄλλοι ἀναρίθμητοι.

[Ed. de Boor 1883]

[A.M. 5797=304/5 C.E.] In the same year Peter, bishop of Alexandria, who had been imprisoned by order of Maximianus Galerius and his son Maximinus, was beheaded and underwent martyrdom gloriously. It was he who excommunicated Arius, who was deacon of his church and who later, as leader of an erroneous heresy, caused many to abandon their piety. And there were many others who in the service of Christ won the martyrs’ crown at the hands of these tyrants. Among them are Phileas, bishop of Thmouis in Egypt; Peleus and Nilus, bishops of Egypt; Anthimos, bishop of Nicomedia; Tyrannion, bishop of Tyre; Silvanus, bishop of Emesa; and Silvanus, bishop of Gaza; Lucian, presbyter of Antioch; Zenobius, presbyter of Sidon; Pamphilus, presbyter of Caesarea; and countless others.

[Trans. Mango, Scott, and Greatrex 1997]

Works Cited

[...] 12.14-26
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[Chronicle of 724 100.2-3

Eusebius, Church History 8.13.1-7]

[Antioch on the Orontes

Egypt

Emesa

Gaza

Nicomedia

Sidon

Thmouis

Tyre]

[Anthimos of Nicomedia

Arius

Jesus Christ

Lucian of Antioch

Maximian, emperor

Maximinus Gaza, emperor

Nilus of Egypt

Pamphilus

Peleus of Egypt

Peter of Alexandria

Phileas of Thmouis

Silvanus of Emesa

Silvanus of Gaza

Tyrannion of Tyre

Zenobius of Sidon]

[Christianity

Death and Burial

Government and Law

Roman History]