Eusebius of caesarea ecclesiastical history

4th-century Christian chronology by Eusebius

The Ecclesiastical History (Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία, Ekklēsiastikḕ Historía; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica), also known as The History of the Church and Church History, is a 4th-century chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century, composed by Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea.

It was written in Koine Greek and survives also in Latin, Syriac, and Armenian manuscripts.^[1]

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The result was the first full-length narrative of the world history written from a Christian point of view.^[2] According to Paul Maier, Herodotus was the father of history and Eusebius of Caesarea is the father of ecclesiastical history.^[3] In the early 5th century, two advocates in Constantinople, Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen, and a bishop, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Syria, wrote continuations of Eusebi