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Name:
Eusebius of Caesarea
Bishop of Caesarea
Dates:
Born: c. 260
Died: May 30, 339
Bishop of Caesarea: 313
Biography:
Eusebius of Caesarea is generally regarded as the "Father of Church History" because of his
effort to preserve records of the early Christian Church. While still a young man he studied
under Pamphilius, and eventual martyr who managed the library of Origen. Here Eusebius
had access to a wide variety of documents not available elsewhere and he began to write
his History of the Church, the first comprehensive account of early Christian history which
preserves long portions of works not otherwise available today.
While bishop of Caesarea, he initially sided with Arius in the Arian controversy over whether Jesus was really divine or simply the "greatest of all creatures." Eventually, however, he recanted what would become one of Christianity's first heresies and he adopted the Nicene Creed which taught that Jesus was of the same divine substance as God.
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