Eusebius

Greek Christian scholar, c.260-c.340

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265–340
Aged 75

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Updated 2026-06-10

He wrote the first history of Christianity that survived — a chronicle of martyrs, bishops, and doctrine from the apostles to Constantine, assembled when the faith was still illegal and then newly imperial.

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Eusebius was born around AD 260 in Syria Palaestina and became bishop of Caesarea around AD 314. Working alongside the scholar Pamphilus, he studied the biblical canon and produced a series of learned works: the Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel, studies on gospel discrepancies, and the Onomasticon, an early geographical lexicon of biblical Holy Land sites. His Ecclesiastical History earned him the title "Father of Church History," tracing Christianity's trajectory through persecution and councils. He also wrote On the Life of Pamphilus, the Chronicle, On the Martyrs, a…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Eusebius

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All of these credited for righteousness, going back from Abraham to the first man, could be described as Christians in fact if not in name, without exceeding the truth.

— 1.4

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While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.

— 2.1.

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