# Historia ecclesiastica 1.2.2

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/1.2.2

γενέσθαι τὴν χειροτονίαν. Οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν δὲ οἱ εἰς Νίκαιαν συνεληλυθότες, θαυμάσαντες τοῦ βίου καὶ τῶν λόγων Εὐστάθιον, ἄξιον ἐδοκίμασαν τοῦ ἀποστολικοῦ θρόνου ἡγεῖσθαι: καὶ ἐπίσκοπον ὄντα τῆς γείτονος Βεροίας, εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν μετέστησαν. Τῶν δὲ Χριστιανῶν οἱ μὲν πρὸς ἕω μέχρι τῶν ὁμόρων Αἰγυπτίοις Λιβύων οὐκ ἐθάρρουν τότε εἰς τὸ φανερὸν ἐκκλησιάζειν, μεταβαλλομένου Λικιννίου τῆς πρὸς αὐτοὺς εὐνοίας: οἱ δὲ ἀνὰ τὴν δύσιν, Ἕλληνές τε καὶ Μακεδόνες καὶ Ἰλλυριοὶ, ἀδεῶς ἐθρήσκευον διὰ Κωνσταντῖνον, ὃς ἡγεῖτο τῶν τῇδε Ῥωμαίων.

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Sozomenus, Salaminius Hermias, Historia ecclesiastica, ed. Robert Hussey. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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