George Syncellus, Chronographic Selection 680.17-681.2
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Καισάρειαν Παλαιστίνης

, and

Caesarea Palestinae

are directly attested at George Syncellus, Chronographic Selection 680.17-681.2. 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 5728 (228 C.E.), George listed the bishops of the eastern cities and noted Origen’s move from Alexandria to Caesarea.

Ἀντιοχείας ιαʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ζέβεννος ἔτη ϛʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ιγʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ἡρακλᾶς ἔτη ιϛʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων λεʹ ἐπίσκοπος Νάρκισσος ἔτη ιʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων λϛʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ μάρτυς ἔτη ιεʹ. Ὠριγένης ὁ ματαιόφρων ἀπὸ Ἀλεξανδρείας εἰς Καισάρειαν Παλαιστίνης μετέστη.

[Ed. Dindorf 1829 [cited by page-line]] [Minor corr. J. L. Rife with ref. to Mosshammer 1984]

The eleventh bishop of Antioch was Zebennos 6 years The thirteenth bishop of Alexandria was Heraclas 16 years The thirty-fifth bishop of Jerusalem was Narcissus 10 years The thirty-sixth bishop of Jerusalem was Alexander the martyr 15 years The feeble-minded Origen moved from Alexandria to Caesarea Palestinae.

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

Works Cited

[...] 680.17-681.2
[...] 522

Additional Bibliography

[...] 442.20-442.25

[Eusebius, Canons 2.216a

Eusebius, Church History 6.26

Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Maḥre, The Chronicle of Zuqnīn 1.132]

[Alexandria

Antioch on the Orontes

Jerusalem]

[Heraclas, bishop

Narcissus, bishop

Origen

Zebennos, bishop]

[Christianity

Government and Law

Martyrdom

Roman History

Travel]