Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume II/Socrates/Book VII/Chapter 9

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Chapter IX.—The Bishops of Antioch and Rome.

During this period upon the death of Flavian[1]

Porphyry received the episcopate of Antioch, and after him Alexander[2]

was set over that church. But at Rome, Damasus having held that bishopric eighteen years Siricius succeeded him;[3]

and Siricius having presided there fifteen years, Anastasius held sway over the church for three years; after Anastasius Innocent [was promoted to the same see]. He was the first persecutor of the Novatians at Rome, and many of their churches he took away.


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  1. 404 a.d.
  2. 414 a.d.
  3. 385 a.d.