Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Church History of Eusebius/Book V/Chapter 9

by Philip Schaff et al.

Chapter IX.—The Bishops under Commodus.

1. After Antoninus^[1] had been emperor for nineteen years, Commodus received the government.^[2] In his first year Julian^[3] became bishop of the Alexandrian churches, after Agrippinus^[4] had held the office for twelve years.

Footnotes

1. i.e. Marcus Aurelius. See below, p. 390, note.
2. March 17, 180 a.d.
3. Of this Julian we know nothing except what is told us by Eusebius here and in chap. 22, below, where he is said to have held office ten years. In the Chron. he is also said to have been bishop for ten years, but his accession is put in the nineteenth year of Marcus Aurelius (by Jerome), or in the second year of Commodus (by the Armenian version).
4. Upon Agrippinus, see above, Bk. IV. chap. 19, note 5.