George Syncellus, Chronographic Selection 660.1-660.7
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Καισάρεια

, and

Caesarea

are directly attested at George Syncellus, Chronographic Selection 660.1-660.7. This passage was written ca. 808-815 CE possibly in Constantinople. George Syncellus (“cellmate”), whose career spanned the late 8th to very early 9th centuries, was a Palestinian monk before his appointment as the assistant to Tarasius, Patriarch of Contantinople. Apparently facing hostility from the emperor Nicephorus I, he retired to monastic solitude in ca. 808, where he devoted himself to writing his Chronographic Selection (Ἐκλογὴ Χρονογραφίας). This work was a universal history in the form of a synchronic tabulation by year, following the chronographic models of the Late Antique Near East and Egypt that were rooted in the works of Sextus Julius Africanus and Eusebius of Caesarea. In his entry under the Year of the World 5609 (109 C.E.), George listed the bishops of the eastern cities and recorded an earthquake at Caesarea.

Ἀντιοχείας δʹ ἐπίσκοπος Κορνήλιος ἔτη ιγʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ϛʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ἰοῦστος ἔτη ιʹ. Νικόπολις καὶ Καισάρεια σεισμῷ κατεπτώθησαν. Ἱεροσολύμων θʹ ἐπίσκοπος Φίλιππος ἔτη βʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ιʹ ἐπίσκοπος Σενέκας ἔτος αʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ιαʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ἰοῦστος ἔτη δʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ιβʹ ἐπίσκοπος Λευὶς ἔτη δʹ.

[Ed. Dindorf 1829] [Minor corr. J. L. Rife with ref. to Mosshammer 1984]

The fourth bishop of Antioch was Cornelius 13 years The sixth bishop of Alexandria was Justus 10 years Nicopolis and Caesarea collapsed in an earthquake The ninth bishop of Jerusalem was Philippus 2 years The tenth bishop of Jerusalem was Seneca 1 year The eleventh bishop of Jerusalem was Justus 4 years The twelfth bishop of Jerusalem was Levi 4 years

[Rev. Adler and Tuffin 2002 with ref. to Dindorf 1829]

Works Cited

[...] 660.1-660.7
[...] 504

Additional Bibliography

[...] 427.1-427.7

[Eusebius, Canons 2.200a

Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Maḥre, The Chronicle of Zuqnīn 1.124]

[Alexandria

Antioch on the Orontes

Jerusalem

Nicopolis (Emmaus)]

[Cornelius, bishop

Justus, bishop

Justus, bishop

Levi, bishop

Philippus, bishop

Seneca, bishop]

[Christianity

Government and Law

Natural Environment

Roman History]