Jerome, Chronicle 215f-216c
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Caesarea Maritima is indirectly attested at Jerome, Chronicle 215f-216c. This passage was written ca. 380-381 C.E. possibly in Constantinople. St. Jerome undertook to write a universal history of the world early in his illustrious career. His work translated and annotated the second half of Eusebius’ work, finished over a half century earlier, which was organized into a tabulated concordance of chronological schemes (χρονικοὶ κανόνες) ranging from Abraham to Constantine I; he continued Eusebius in the same format with his own historical compendium for the years 327-378 C.E. This passage from Jerome’s translation of Eusebius records the careers of bishops in the East during the reign of Severus Alexander, including Origen’s move from Alexandria to Caesarea.

Romanorum CCLII Olymp(ias) VII (215f) Antiochiae XI constituitur episcopus Zebennus VIII (g) Origenes Alexandriae clarus habetur VIIII (h) Alexandrinae ecclesiae XII episcopus ordinatur Heraclas ann(is) XVI X (i) Alexander in matrem Mammaeam unice pius fuit et ob id omnibus amabilis. CCLIII Olymp(ias) XI (216a) Origenes de Alexandria ad Caesariam Palaestinae transit IICCL XII (b) Romanae ecclesiae XVII episcopatum suscipit Pontianus ann(is) V XIII (c) Alexander occiditur Mogontiaci tumultu militari.

[Ed. Helm 1956] [Minor corr.]

Year of the Romans 252nd Olympiad [229 C.E.] 7 (215f) Zebennus is appointed the eleventh bishop of Antioch [230 C.E.] 8 (g) Origen gains renown at Alexandria. [231 C.E.] 9 (h) Heraclas is ordained the twelfth bishop of the Church of Alexandria for sixteen years. [232 C.E.] 10 (i) Alexander was particularly devoted to his mother Mammaea, and for this reason he was agreeable to everyone. 253rd Olympiad [233 C.E.] 11 (216a) Origen moves from Alexandria to Caesarea Maritima. [234 C.E.] 2050 12 (b) Pontianus takes up the seventeenth episcopate of the Church of Rome for four years. [235 C.E.] 13 (c) Alexander is killed at Moguntiacum in a military uprising.

[Trans. J. L. Rife with ref. to Pearse 2005]

Works Cited

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[Epiphanius, Measures and Weights 18

Eusebius, Church History 6.26.1

George Syncellus, Chronicle 361c=p. 681

Jerome, Illustrious Men 54

Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos, Church History 5.14.18

Suda s.v. Ὠριγένης (1275.17 ed. Bekker)

Zonaras 12.17=263c]

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Moguntiacum (Mainz)

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[Alexander Severus, emperor

Heraclas

Julia Mammaea

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Pontianus

Zebennus]

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