Index apostolorum discipulorumque Domini

Dorotheus, bishop of Tyre, an ancient man, spirit-bearing and a martyr, who lived in the times of Licinius and Constantine the emperors. This aforementioned renowned man left behind various writings, both in Latin and Greek, since he was experienced in both languages; he was also a polymath by reason of his natural ability. After the death of Diocletian and Licinius, he also took over his own parish and governed the church in Tyre until the time of Julian the tyrant. And since Julian did not destroy Christians openly but secretly through his officials, Dorotheus again took refuge in Odyssupolis, where, having been seized by Julian’s officials and having endured many tortures in extreme old age on account of his confession of Christ, he died under the torments, being already one hundred and seven years old. This great elder, then, has left us ecclesiastical writings, among which he also recorded the matters concerning the seventy disciples of the Savior, and where each of the prophets and apostles ended his life. First, he says that those seventy are the ones whom the majority also became bishops in various parishes, whom the divine apostle also mentions in his greetings; for after the resurrection of our Savior from the dead, he indicates that all of them returned and were numbered among the apostles, whose names he here somewhere records, saying.

1. James, the brother of the Lord and first bishop of Jerusalem, appointed by the Lord himself. 2. Cleopas, also called Symeon, the cousin of the Lord and second bishop of Jerusalem, who also saw him after his resurrection from the dead. 3. Matthias, who filled the number of the twelve apostles. 4. Thaddaeus, who delivered the letter to Abgar the toparch in Edessa and healed his affliction. 5. Ananias, who baptized Saint Paul and later became bishop of Damascus. 6. Stephen, the protomartyr, one of those chosen by the twelve apostles for the diaconate. 7. Philip, one of the seven, who also baptized Simon and the eunuch, and became bishop in Tralles of Asia. 8. Prochorus, one of the seven and became bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia. 9. Nicanor, one of the seven, who died on the same day on which Saint Stephen, together with two thousand others who had hoped in Christ.

10. Timon, one of the Seven, who became bishop of Bostra of the Arabs and was burned by the Greeks. 11. Parmenas, one of the Seven, who died in the presence of the apostles while in his ministry. 12. Nicholas, one of the Seven, who became bishop of Samaria and deviated in doctrine together with Simon. 13. Barnabas, who served with Paul in the word, first preached Christ in Rome, later becoming bishop of Mediolanum. 14. Mark, who was made bishop of Alexandria by the apostle Peter and also an evangelist. 15. Silas, who served with Paul in the word and became bishop in Corinth. 16. Luke, who preached the gospel throughout the whole earth together with Paul. 17. Silvanus, who served with Paul in the word and became bishop of Thessalonica. 18. Crescens, whom the apostle mentions in the second epistle to Timothy, and who also became bishop of Chalcedon in Gaul. 19. Epaenetus, whom the apostle mentions in the epistle to the Romans, and who also became bishop of Carthage.

20. Andronicus, whom the apostle mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Spain. 21. Amplias, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who became bishop of Odessus. 22. Urbanus, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who became bishop of Macedonia. 23. Stachys, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, whom the apostle Andrew, while sailing the Pontic Sea, appointed bishop of Byzantium in Argyropolis of Thrace. 24. Apelles, whom the apostle also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who himself became bishop of Heraclea. 25. Phygellus, who adopted the opinions of Simon, became bishop of Ephesus. 26. Hermogenes, who was also appointed bishop in Megara. 27. Demas, whom the apostle mentions in the Second Epistle to Timothy, that Phygellus and Hermogenes, having become heterodox, opposed his teaching. But Demas, loving the present world, abandoned the evangelical word and became a priest of idols in Thessalonica, concerning whom the apostle John also wrote: They went out from us, but they were not of us.

28. Apelles, whom the apostle also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Smyrna before Saint Polycarp. 29. Aristobulus, whom the apostle also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who became bishop of Britain. 30. Narcissus, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Athens. 31. Herodian, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Patara. 32. Agabus, who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, who was also deemed worthy of the gift of prophecy. 33. Rufus, whom the apostle also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Thebes. 34. Asyncritus, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Hyrcania. 35. Phlegon, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Marathon. 36. Hermes, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Dalmatia.

37. Patrobas, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop in Puteoli. 38. Hermas, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Philippopolis. 39. Linus, who became bishop of Rome after the apostle Peter. 40. Gaius, whom the apostle mentions, who became bishop of Ephesus after Timothy, the disciple of the apostle Paul. 41. Philologus, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop under the apostle Andrew in Sinope. 42. Olympas. 43. Rhodion, both of whom the apostle also mentions, who also had their heads cut off in Rome together with the apostle Peter under Nero. 44. Lucas, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop in Laodicea of Syria. 45. Jason, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Tarsus. 46. Sosipater, whom he also mentions in the Epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Iconium.

47. Tertius, who also wrote the Epistle to the Romans, who became the second bishop of Iconium. 48. Erastus, whom he also mentions in the same epistle, who also became steward of the church in Jerusalem and later bishop of Paneas. 49. Quartus, whom he also mentions in the same epistle, who also became bishop of Berytus. 50. Apollos, whom the apostle also mentions in the Epistle to the Corinthians, who also became bishop of Caesarea. 51. Cephas, whom the apostle Paul rebuked in Antioch, who also became bishop of Conia. 52. Sosthenes, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Colophonia. 53. Tychicus, whom the apostle also mentions, who became bishop of Colophonia. 54. Epaphroditus, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Andriaca. 55. Caesar, whom the apostle also mentions, who became bishop of Dyrrhachium. 56. Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Apollonia.

57. Jesus, who is called Justus, whom the apostle also mentions in the Acts of the Apostles, who also became bishop of Eleutheropolis. 58. Artemas, whom the apostle also mentions, who became bishop of Lystra. 59. Clement, whom the apostle also mentions, saying: with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, who first from among the nations and Greeks believed in Christ, who also later became bishop of Sardica. 60. Onesiphorus, whom the apostle also mentions, who became bishop of Coronia. 61. Tychicus, whom the apostle also mentions, who became the first bishop of Chalcedon in Bithynia. 62. Carpus, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Beroea in Thrace. 63. Euodius, who after the apostle Peter became bishop in Antioch, whom the apostle also mentions. 64. Aristarchus, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Apamea in Syria.

65. Mark, also called John, whom Luke mentions in the Acts, who also became bishop of Byblus. 66. Zenas the lawyer, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Diospolis. 67. Philemon, to whom he also wrote an epistle, who also became bishop of Gaza. 68, 69, 70. Aristarchus, Pudens, and Trophimus. These three, having suffered together with the apostle in all his persecutions, were finally beheaded in Rome with the same apostle by the emperor Nero. These things the thrice-blessed and all-blessed Dorotheus, who was in Rome, left behind in memoirs in the Latin language, from which we, having gathered and translated into the Greek tongue, have made manifest to all, having understood the selection of the seventy disciples to be faithful and true. For the apostle, writing about them, said that they were in the Lord even before us. And one would not consider it unbelievable that after the resurrection of Christ the seventy turned and believed in him, having beheld his resurrection from the dead, which was and is greater than all miracles. So this great high priest Dorotheus related in writings that the venerable house of the holy and victorious martyr Euphemia in the Petrion was built from the beginning by a certain Titus, who, having become bishop of Byzantium and having died there, was buried near the old walls, from the time when the apostle Andrew also oversaw the places and prepared many multitudes of Christians to gather there, so that not so many were found in other places.

All the teachers of Byzantium, having become patient through humility, avoided the tyrannical threats and sowed divine reason among those from the nations or from Judaism, even though Titus was performing miracles, of the same kind as the Savior performed. And while the tyranny of Licinius and Diocletian was still prevailing, in this matter he is killed. And Carus the emperor and his sons Carinus and Numerian, having become tyrants with impunity, resorted more shamelessly to the punishment of Christians, killing thousands of them daily; among them Hadrian, the son of Probus, hastened to die. For having come to the city of Nicomedia after the death of Carus and seeing the multitudes of Christians being shamelessly killed by Licinius, he approached the tribunal and said to Licinius: Why is the army of the Romans being so shamelessly destroyed? And behold, the barbarians hold most of the Romans. And Licinius said to him: Are you also a Christian? And Hadrian said to him: Indeed, I pray to be perfected in this confession rather than to deny Christ. And Licinius brought many tortures, and also many flatteries and promises to him. But when he saw him persisting in the confession of a Christian, he became enraged against him and ordered his head to be cut off.

When he had been perfected in this confession, Metrophanes, having just then begun his episcopate, together with those accompanying him, took possession of Nicomedia and, having secretly taken the relic of the martyr Adrian, called Callinicus, he carried it off and deposited it in the first church that existed for them, situated near Byzantium in the place called Argyropolis, where also Titus, the first bishop of Constantinople, had deposited the relic of Adrian, who suffered martyrdom under Maximian, and of Natalia his wife, and of others who suffered martyrdom with him, and where also the relic of Stachys, one of the seventy disciples, was laid, whom Andrew the apostle had appointed as the first bishop of what is now Byzantium in that very place. For Andrew, crossing over to Pontus, wished to proclaim Christ to those in Byzantium. But since Zeuxippus, who was then governing the place, being a bloodthirsty man, first questioned all strangers approaching Byzantium about Christ, and only then allowed them to enter. And if anyone confessed Christ, he immediately ordered that person to be bound hand and foot and thrown into the sea. Because of such cruelty, therefore, Andrew sailed past Byzantium and dwelt for two years near Byzantium in the Thracian region, about one stade from Argyropolis, there gathering together law-abiding and truth-loving men.

When he had gathered about two thousand, having established an altar to Christ in Argyropolis and appointed Stachys bishop, he departs to Sinope of Pontus. When Stachys had completed his sixteenth year in the episcopate, Onesimus, about whom the apostle Paul wrote to Philemon, succeeds him. And when he had completed his fourteenth year in the ministry, Polycarp, after him, is appointed bishop of Byzantium for three years. And when he had completed eighteen years, Plutarch succeeds to the priesthood. And when he had completed sixteen years, Sedekion is appointed his successor for a period of nine years. After him, Diogenes, having remained in the priesthood for fifteen years, dies. After him, Eleutherius for a period of seven years. After him, Felix for five years; and after him, Polycarp for seventeen years. There, then, the bodies of these were deposited in a stone shrine; and the body of Natalia was deposited, and that of Hadrian, who later suffered martyrdom. In the other reliquary, made at that time directly, the relics of the thirteen martyrs were placed. In a lead reliquary, Hadrian, the husband of Natalia, was deposited separately, and these lie clearly visible to this day in the underground cave where the apostle Andrew established the altar.

Already, when a considerable multitude of those who had placed their hope in Christ had gathered, and after the tyranny of Byzantium had ceased following the death of Zeuxippus, and when those in charge of the church in Argyropolis had become masters of more places, wishing to escape the disturbance of the many and the attack of the Greeks and Hebrews, they built another church in the inland regions near Argyropolis, which the great emperor Constantine later made larger, designing it in the shape of a cross, wishing also to have his own body deposited there. But since the affairs of Byzantium had subsequently increased, those who were with Constantine advised that it was not necessary for the bodies of emperors to be carried outside the city. For this reason, another place became the burial site for emperors. The house that had been built was dedicated to the seven steadfast and godly-minded youths in the law and to Eleazar the high priest, having received the ancient name of the place as the house of the Olive Grove. For the place had been called the Olive Grove from ancient times, which Athenodorus, who became bishop after Polycarp, first began as a place of prayer. Having completed his episcopate there in four years, after them Euzoius is appointed the eleventh bishop of Byzantium, who himself, having served as priest for six years among them, left the priesthood to Laurentius. And when he had completed eleven years and six months, Alypius leads the priesthood for thirteen and a half years. Again after him, Pertinax became bishop, having held the priesthood for fourteen years.

This Pertinax, a consular and general in Rome, having fallen into an incurable affliction while residing in the Thracian regions, learned that very many forces had gathered in Byzantium among the Christians. Coming to Alypius the bishop in the church called that of the Olive, and through his intercession and the laying on of his hands being delivered from his pains, he renounced the error of idols and the preeminence of the army, and having been baptized, he clung to the hope in Christ, remaining with Alypius, having received the rank of presbyter, spending each day in tears of compunction, and after the death of Alypius they advanced him to bishop. Pertinax, being exceedingly wealthy, himself built a church by the seashore in the place called Sycae, naming the house Eirene, which place the Christians made into one of the cities, erecting various and very many houses, for which reason also Constantine, the most pious, later honored the place with walls. After Pertinax, Olympianus was established as bishop in the church called Eirene, himself serving as priest for eleven years. His successor was Marcus for the thirteenth year; after him Cyrillianus for sixteen years, after him Castinus for seven years. So Constantine, in the first year of his reign, built another church within Byzantium on the northern side, where the governors of Byzantium lay buried, naming the house of the martyr Euphemia, who had been martyred at that very time.

There, then, having completed the remaining time of his priesthood, he leaves Titus as his successor, who, having fulfilled thirty-five years and six months, appoints Domitius, the brother of Probus the emperor, as his successor; and when he had completed twenty-four years and six months, Probus, the son of Domitius, succeeds to the priesthood until the completion of twelve years, after whom Metrophanes, the brother of Probus and son of Domitius, is appointed bishop of Byzantium, having remained in the priesthood for ten years. In whose time also Constantine, the most pious, having come to Byzantium because of his array against Licinius, and being pleased with the man’s dignity and having considered the good order of the places, was for the time being restrained from the war against Licinius by the prayers of Metrophanes, and immediately transferred the imperial seat of Rome to Byzantium, fortifying it with walls and roofs, and granting lavish distributions to the citizens according to his own name. These things the most excellent Dorotheus has left behind in Roman writings, and they were also collated by us in the consulship of Philoxenus and Probus, at the time when John, the bishop of Rome, came to Constantinople. For, having been invited by the archbishop of the city to concelebrate with him on the birthday of Christ, he refused to do this unless he should officiate before the bishop of the city, since the bishop of Rome had received precedence before that of Constantinople. A dispute having thus arisen from this, the supporters of Constantinople made their case from the writings of the great Dorotheus, showing that the bishopric of Constantinople was more ancient than that of Rome.

John, the bishop of the Romans, affirmed that the treatise of Dorotheus was true, and he said that he was to be given precedence over the bishop of the city because he occupied the place of the most preeminent of the apostles, and for this reason the primacy was conceded to him, not because the episcopate of Rome existed before that of Constantinople. Further on, in the final parts of his treatise, the holy Dorotheus also makes mention of the twelve apostles, indicating where each of them preached, saying: 1. The apostle Peter, after returning from Antioch, preached the gospel in Gaul and in the inland regions of Pontus and throughout all Cappadocia and Bithynia, and later also in all Italy and Rome, where he was crucified by Nero and is buried in that same Rome on the third day before the Kalends of July. 2. His brother Andrew traversed the entire coast of Bithynia and Pontus, Thrace and the Scythians, evangelizing the Lord. Afterwards he went to great Sebastopolis, where the camp of Apsarus and the river Phasis are, where the inner Ethiopians dwell. He was buried in Patras of Achaia, having been crucified by Aegeates.

3. James the son of Zebedee, among the twelve tribes of Israel, while evangelizing Christ, is killed by the sword by Herod the tetrarch in Caesarea of Palestine. 4. John, his brother, who also wrote the Gospel, after proclaiming Christ in Ephesus, is exiled by the emperor Trajan to the island of Patmos because of his word concerning Christ. From this he became elevated, and thus a tradition has prevailed that he, together with Enoch and Elijah, still exists in the flesh. [4. John, his brother, being 50 years and 7 months old, entered Ephesus and proclaimed the word there for 19 years, was exiled by the emperor Trajan to the island of Patmos, and after spending 15 years there, he composed the holy Gospel and the Apocalypse, and returning again to Ephesus and living 26 years teaching, he was translated in the Lord, being 100 years and 7 months old, buried by his disciples, as the apostle Prochorus, who also wrote his travels, relates.]

5. Philip the apostle, after proclaiming the gospel in Phrygia, is buried in Hierapolis with his seven daughters, whom Luke the evangelist mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. 6. Bartholomew the apostle, after proclaiming Christ to the Indians called the Eudaemones and giving them the Gospel according to Matthew, fell asleep in Corbanopolis of Greater Armenia. 7. Thomas the apostle, after proclaiming the gospel of Christ to the Parthians, Medes, Persians, Germans, Bactrians, and Magi, is perfected in a city of India called Calamene. 8. Matthew the evangelist, after delivering the gospel in the Hebrew dialect to the church in Jerusalem and proclaiming Christ, is perfected in Hierapolis of Syria. 9. Judas the son of James, after proclaiming Christ throughout all Mesopotamia, is perfected in Edessa and is buried there. 10. Simon, surnamed Judas, after proclaiming Christ in Eleutheropolis and from Gaza as far as Egypt, is buried in the city of Ostrakine in Egypt, having been crucified under the emperor Trajan.

11. Matthias, who was numbered among the eleven apostles in place of Judas, after proclaiming Christ in first Ethiopia, and later also in Britain, was crucified by them and perfected, and is buried there. 12. Simon the Zealot, after traversing all of Mauretania and the land of the Africans and proclaiming Christ, and later also in Britain, was crucified by them and perfected, and is buried there. These things Dorotheus gathered for us from Greek and Hebrew sources and handed down in Roman commentaries, which we, having collected as useful and acceptable, have made manifest, as well as how the beginning of the episcopate of Constantinople occurred, and from what lineage Metrophanes was descended. We found these things in the historical writings of the said divine man Dorotheus, that Simon the Cyrenaean was crucified for Christ. [Concerning the prophet Jeremiah and the captivity of Jerusalem] And that Jeremiah, being a priest and prophet, having foreseen by divine spirit also the captivity of Jerusalem after the death of Josiah the king of Judah. [Concerning the ark and the holy things in it.] He took the Mosaic tabernacle and the ark of the covenant and all the holy things in it and all the vessels which Moses constructed, and coming to Mount Nebo, where Moses himself was buried, he found a cave and there deposited everything, and prayed a prayer that they not be revealed until the consummation of the age, and from then the place became unrecognizable even to the priests themselves who deposited them together with Jeremiah.

Under the consulate of Galba and Sulla, during the term of these consuls, the lake of Gennesaret having been frozen from the cold, the daughter of Herodias went out upon the ice for pleasure. The ice having broken, her body was swallowed by the water, but her head, severed by the ice, remained above. And Herodias, having placed her daughter's head upon her knees, weeping, confessed that this had befallen her because she had demanded the head of John the Baptist. And Herod also, who was king of the Jews and tetrarch, died, having become worm-eaten. Pilate inherited from Herod, inasmuch as before the eyes of Herod, both his four sons and this Herodias, from whom he had them, having become worm-eaten, expired. But also Herod himself, having become worm-eaten about the genitals and the whole body, wretchedly breathed his last. And Pilate, inasmuch as he saw before his eyes Herod and his four sons having become worm-eaten and having expired, took all his possessions and inherited from him; but also this adulteress Herodias, together with her four sons and Herod, having become worm-eaten, breathed her own last. A certain Procopius, then, having been deemed worthy of the presbyterate, having excelled in life and word of piety, and having always trained in all diligence and experience concerning the scriptures, and having encountered the historical writings of the most holy and most blessed bishop and martyr Dorotheus, has left all these things to us, having compiled them in writing.

Grace, therefore, to his labors and his immortal memory, now and always and unto the ages of ages, amen. Dorotheus, bishop of Tyre, an ancient man, a spiritual bearer and a martyr, who lived in the times of Licinius and Constantine the emperors. This aforementioned renowned man left behind various writings in both Latin and Greek, since he was experienced in both languages; he also became a polymath through his natural ability. After the death of Diocletian and Licinius, he also took over his own parish and was guiding the church in Tyre until Julian the tyrant. And since Julian was not openly, but secretly through his officials, putting Christians to death, Dorotheus again took over Odyssoupolis, where, having been seized by Julian's officials and having endured many tortures in extreme old age for his confession of Christ, he died under the torments, being already one hundred and seven years old. This great elder, therefore, has left us ecclesiastical writings, in which he also recorded the matters concerning the seventy disciples of the Savior, and where each of the prophets and apostles ended his life. First, he says that those seventy are the ones, most of whom also became bishops in various parishes, whom the divine apostle also mentions in his greetings; for after the resurrection of our Savior from the dead, he indicates that all of them returned and were among the apostles, whose names he here somewhere notes, saying: 1.

James, the brother of the Lord and first bishop of Jerusalem, appointed by the Lord himself. 2. Cleopas, also called Symeon, the cousin of the Lord, who became the second bishop of Jerusalem, and who saw him after his resurrection from the dead. 3. Matthias, who filled the number of the twelve apostles. 4. Thaddaeus, who carried the letter to Abgar the toparch in Edessa and healed his affliction. 5. Ananias, who baptized the holy Paul and later became bishop of Damascus. 6. Stephen, the protomartyr, one of those chosen by the twelve apostles for the diaconate. 7. Philip, one of the seven, who baptized both Simon and the eunuch, and became bishop of Tralles in Asia. 8. Prochorus, one of the seven, who became bishop of Nicomedia in Bithynia. 9. Nicanor, one of the seven, who died on the same day that the holy Stephen, together with two thousand others who had hoped in Christ, was martyred. 10. Timon, one of the seven, who became bishop of Bostra in Arabia and was burned by the Greeks. 11. Parmenas, one of the seven, who died in the presence of the apostles while in his diaconate. 12. Nicolaus, one of the seven, who became bishop of Samaria and held heterodox views together with Simon. 13. Barnabas, who first served with Paul in the word, preached Christ in Rome, and later became bishop of Milan. 14. Mark, who was made bishop of Alexandria and evangelist by the apostle Peter. 15. Silas, who served with Paul in the word and became bishop in Corinth. 16.

Luke, who proclaimed the gospel throughout the whole earth together with Paul. 17. Silvanus, who served with Paul in the word, became bishop of Thessalonica. 18. Crescens, whom the apostle mentions in the second epistle to Timothy, who also became bishop of Chalcedon in Gaul. 19. Epaenetus, whom the apostle mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Carthage. 20. Andronicus, whom the apostle mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Spain. 21. Amplias, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Odyssus. 22. Urbanus, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who became bishop of Macedonia. 23. Stachys, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, whom Andrew the apostle, while sailing the Pontic Sea, appointed bishop of Byzantium in Argyropolis of Thrace. 24. Apelles, whom the apostle also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who himself also became bishop of Heraclea. 25. Phygelus, having adopted the opinions of Simon, became bishop of Ephesus. 26. Hermogenes, who was also appointed bishop in Megara. 27. Demas, whom the apostle mentions in the second epistle to Timothy, that Phygelus and Hermogenes, having become heterodox, opposed his teaching. But Demas, having loved the present age, abandoned the evangelical word, and became a priest of idols in Thessalonica, concerning whom John the apostle also wrote: They went out from us, but they were not of us. 28.

Apelles, whom the apostle also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Smyrna before the holy Polycarp. 29. Aristobulus, whom the apostle also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who became bishop of Britain. 30. Narcissus, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Athens. 31. Herodion, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Patara. 32. Agabus, who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, who was also deemed worthy of the prophetic gift. 33. Rufus, whom the apostle also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Thebes. 34. Asyncritus, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Hyrcania. 35. Phlegon, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Marathon. 36. Hermes, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Dalmatia. 37. Patrobas, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop in Puteoli. 38. Hermas, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Philippopolis. 39. Linus, who became bishop of Rome after the apostle Peter. 40. Gaius, whom the apostle mentions, who became bishop of Ephesus after Timothy, the disciple of the apostle Paul. 41. Philologus, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop under the apostle Andrew in Sinope. 42. Olympas. 43.

Rhodion, whom the apostle also mentions, and who together with Peter the apostle in Rome had their heads cut off by Nero. 44. Lucas, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop in Laodicea of Syria. 45. Jason, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Tarsus. 46. Sosipater, whom he also mentions in the epistle to the Romans, who also became bishop of Iconium. 47. Tertius, who also wrote the epistle to the Romans, who became the second bishop of Iconium. 48. Erastus, whom he also mentions in the same epistle, who also became steward of the church in Jerusalem and later bishop of Paneas. 49. Quartus, whom he also mentions in the same epistle, who also became bishop of Berytus. 50. Apollos, whom the apostle also mentions in the epistle to the Corinthians, who also became bishop of Caesarea. 51. Cephas, whom the apostle Paul rebuked in Antioch, who also became bishop of Conia. 52. Sosthenes, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Colophonia. 53. Tychicus, whom the apostle also mentions, who became bishop of Colophonia. 54. Epaphroditus, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Andriaca. 55. Caesar, whom the apostle also mentions, who became bishop of Dyrrhachium. 56. Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Apollonias. 57.

Jesus called Justus, whom the apostle also mentions in the Acts of the Apostles, who also became bishop of Eleutheropolis. 58. Artemas, whom the apostle also mentions, who became bishop of Lystra. 59. Clement, whom the apostle also mentions, saying: with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, who also first among Gentiles and Greeks believed in Christ, who also later became bishop of Sardica. 60. Onesiphorus, whom the apostle also mentions, who became bishop of Coronia. 61. Tychicus, whom the apostle also mentions, who became first bishop of Chalcedon in Bithynia. 62. Carpus, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Beroea in Thrace. 63. Euodius, who after Peter the apostle became bishop in Antioch, whom the apostle also mentions. 64. Aristarchus, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Apamea in Syria. 65. Mark, also called John, whom Luke mentions in the Acts, who also became bishop of Byblus. 66. Zenas the lawyer, whom the apostle also mentions, who also became bishop of Diospolis. 67. Philemon, to whom he also wrote an epistle, who also became bishop of Gaza. 68, 69, 70. Aristarchus and Pudens and Trophimus: these three, having suffered together with the apostle in all his persecutions, finally in Rome together with the same apostle had their heads cut off by the emperor Nero.

These things the thrice-blessed and all-happy Dorotheus, who lived in Rome, left behind in commentaries in the Latin language, from which we, having gathered and translated into the Greek tongue, have made manifest to all, having understood the selection of the seventy disciples to be faithful and true. For the apostle, writing about them, said that they also came before us in the Lord. And one would not consider it unbelievable that after the resurrection of Christ the seventy turned and believed in him, having beheld his resurrection from the dead, which was and is greater than all miracles. This great high priest Dorotheus, then, related in writings that the venerable house of the holy and victorious martyr Euphemia in the Petrion was built from the beginning by a certain Titus, which Titus, having become bishop of Byzantium and having been perfected in it, was laid to rest near the old walls, from the time when Andrew the apostle also presided over the places and prepared many multitudes of Christians to gather there, so that not so many were found in other places. For all the teachers of Byzantium, having become patient through humility, avoided the tyrannical threats, and sowed divine reasoning among those from the nations or from Judaism, even though Titus performed miracles of the sort that the Savior also performed. And still, while the tyranny of Licinius and Diocletian prevailed, in this matter he is put to death.

And Carus the emperor and his sons Carinus and Numerian, having thereafter become tyrants with impunity, more shamelessly hastened to the punishments of Christians, slaying them by the thousands daily. Among these, Hadrian, the son of Probus, hastened to die. For having come to the city of Nicomedia after the death of Carus and seeing the multitudes of Christians being shamelessly put to death by Licinius, he approached the tribunal and said to Licinius: "Why is the army of the Romans being so shamelessly destroyed? And behold, most of the Romans are held by barbarians." Licinius said to him: "Are you also a Christian?" Hadrian said to him: "Indeed, I pray to be perfected in this confession rather than to deny Christ." Licinius then applied many tortures, many flatteries, and promises to him. But when he saw him persisting in the confession of Christ, he became enraged against him and ordered his head to be cut off.

When he had been perfected in this confession, Metrophanes, having only just begun his episcopacy, together with those with him, seized Nicomedia and, having stolen the relic of the martyr Hadrian Callinicus himself, carried it away and deposited it in the first church that existed for them, situated near Byzantium in the place called Argyropolis, where also Titus, the first bishop of Constantinople, deposited the relic of Hadrian who was martyred under Maximian, and Natalia his wife, and others who were martyred with him, where also the relic of Stachys, one of the seventy disciples, was laid, whom Andrew the apostle first established as bishop of what is now Byzantium in that very place. For Andrew, crossing over to Pontus, wished to proclaim Christ to those in Byzantium. But since Zeuxippus, who was then governing the place, being a bloodthirsty man, allowed all strangers approaching Byzantium to enter only after first being questioned about Christ, and then in this way. And if anyone confessed Christ, he immediately ordered that person to be bound hand and foot and thrown into the sea. Because of such cruelty, therefore, Andrew sailed past Byzantium and dwelt for two years near Byzantium in the Thracian part, about one stade from Argyropolis, there making a gathering of lawful and truth-loving men.

So having gathered about two thousand, he established an altar to Christ in Argyropolis and, having appointed Stachys bishop, he departs to Sinope of Pontus. When Stachys had completed his sixteenth year in the episcopacy, Onesimus, about whom the apostle Paul wrote to Philemon, succeeds him. And when he had completed his fourteenth year in the ministry, Polycarp succeeds him as bishop of Byzantium for three years. And when this one had completed eighteen years, Plutarch enters the priesthood. And when he had completed sixteen years, Sedekion becomes his successor for a period of nine years. After him, Diogenes, having remained in the priesthood for fifteen years, is perfected. After him, Eleutherius for a period of seven years. After him, Felix for a fifth year; and after him, Polycarp for up to seventeen years. There, then, the bodies of these were deposited in a stone shrine; and the body of Natalia was deposited, and that of Hadrian, who later suffered martyrdom. In the other reliquary, made at that time directly, the relics of the thirteen martyrs were placed. In a lead reliquary, Hadrian, the husband of Natalia, was deposited separately, which even to this day lie visibly in the underground cave where the apostle Andrew established the altar.

Now when a sufficient multitude of those who had hoped in Christ had gathered, and the tyranny of Byzantium had ceased after the death of Zeuxippus, and those in charge of the church in Argyropolis had become masters of more places, wishing to escape the disturbance of the many and the assault of the Greeks and Hebrews, they built another church in the inland regions near Argyropolis, which the great emperor Constantine later made larger, having designed it in the shape of a cross, wishing also that his own body be laid there. But since the affairs of Byzantium had increased, those with Constantine advised that the bodies of emperors should not be carried outside the city. For this reason, another place was made for the burial of emperors. The house that had been built was dedicated to the seven steadfast and godly-minded youths in the law and to Eleazar the high priest, the place having received the ancient name of the house of the Olive. For the place had been called the Olive from ancient times, which Athenodorus, who became bishop after Polycarp, first began as a house of prayer. Having completed his episcopacy there in four years, after which Euzoius was established as the eleventh bishop of Byzantium, who himself having served as priest for six years, left the priesthood to Laurentius. And when he had completed eleven years and six months, Alypius took charge of the priesthood for thirteen and a half years. Again after him, Pertinax became bishop, having held the priesthood for fourteen years.

This Pertinax, having been a consular of those in Rome and a general, and having fallen into an incurable affliction, while living in the Thracian regions, learned that very many forces had gathered in Byzantium under the Christians. Arriving before Alypius the bishop in the church called that of Elaea, and through his intercession and the laying on of his hands being delivered from his pains, he renounces the error of idols and the preeminence of the army, and having been baptized with hope in Christ, he remained with Alypius, having received the rank of presbyter, continuing each day in tears of compunction, and after the death of Alypius they appointed him bishop. Being exceedingly wealthy, Pertinax himself again erected a church right by the seashore in the place called Sycae, naming the house Eirene, which place the Christians made into one of the cities, erecting various and very many houses, for which reason later Constantine, the most pious, honored the place with walls. After Pertinax, Olympianus was established as bishop in the church called Eirene, himself having served as priest for eleven years. His successor becomes Marcus for a thirteenth year; after him Cyrillianus for sixteen years, after him Castinus for seven years. Constantine, then, in his first year, erects another church within Byzantium on the northern side, where also those who had governed Byzantium lay, naming the house of the martyr Euphemia, she having been martyred at that same time.

There, then, having completed the remaining time of his priesthood, he leaves Titus as successor, who, having fulfilled thirty-five years and six months, appoints Domitius, the brother of the emperor Probus, as successor; and when he had completed twenty-four years and six months, Probus, the son of Domitius, succeeds to the priesthood until the completion of twelve years, after whom Metrophanes, the brother of Probus and son of Domitius, is appointed bishop of Byzantium, remaining in the priesthood for ten years. During his time, Constantine, the most pious, having come to Byzantium because of his battle against Licinius, and being pleased with the man's dignity and having considered the good order of the places, was for a time restrained from the war against Licinius by the prayers of Metrophanes, and immediately transferred the imperial seat from Rome to Byzantium, fortifying it with walls and roofs, and granting lavish provisions to the citizens according to his own name. These things the most excellent Dorotheus has left behind in Roman writings, and they were also compared by us in the consulship of Philoxenus and Probus, when John, the bishop of Rome, came to Constantinople. For, having been invited by the archbishop of the city to concelebrate with him on the birthday of Christ, he refused to do this unless he should officiate before the bishop of the city, since the bishop of Rome had received precedence before that of Constantinople. A dispute having arisen from this, the supporters of Constantinople made their case from the writings of the great Dorotheus, showing that the bishopric of Constantinople was older than that of Rome.

John, the bishop of the Romans, affirmed that the treatise of Dorotheus was true, and he said that he was given precedence over the bishop of the city because he held the place of the most chief of the apostles, and for this reason the primacy was conceded to him, not because the bishopric of Rome existed before that of Constantinople. Further on, in the final parts of his treatise, the holy Dorotheus also makes mention of the twelve apostles, indicating where each of them preached, saying: 1. The apostle Peter, having preached the gospel in Gaul and in the inland regions of Pontus and throughout all Cappadocia and Bithynia after his return from Antioch, later also in all Italy and Rome, where he was crucified by Nero and is buried in that same Rome before the third Kalends of July. 2. Andrew, his brother, traversed the entire coast of Bithynia and Pontus, Thrace and the Scythians, evangelizing the Lord. Afterwards he went to great Sebastopolis, where the camp of Apsarus and the river Phasis are, where the inner Ethiopians dwell. He was buried in Patras of Achaia, having been crucified by Aegeates. 3. James, the son of Zebedee, evangelized the twelve tribes of Israel, among whom, while preaching Christ, he was killed by the sword by Herod the tetrarch in Caesarea of Palestine. 4. John, his brother, who also wrote the gospel, having preached Christ in Ephesus, was exiled by the emperor Trajan to the island of Patmos because of the word of Christ.

From this he was taken up, for which reason a saying has prevailed that, together with Enoch and Elijah, he still exists in the flesh. [4. John, his brother, being 50 years and 7 months old, entered Ephesus and preached the word there for 19 years, was banished by the emperor Trajan to the island of Patmos, and having spent 15 years there, he wrote the holy Gospel and the Apocalypse, and having returned again to Ephesus and lived 26 years teaching, he was translated to the Lord, being 100 years and 7 months old, and was buried by his disciples, as the apostle Prochorus, who also wrote his travels, relates.] 5. The apostle Philip, having preached the gospel in Phrygia, is buried in Hierapolis with his seven daughters, whom Luke the evangelist mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. 6. The apostle Bartholomew, having preached Christ to the Indians called the Eudaemons and given them the Gospel according to Matthew, fell asleep in Corbanopolis of Greater Armenia. 7. The apostle Thomas, having preached the gospel of Christ to the Parthians, Medes, Persians, Germans, Bactrians, and Magi, is perfected in the city of India called Calamene. 8. The evangelist Matthew, having delivered the gospel in the Hebrew dialect to the church in Jerusalem and preached Christ, is perfected in Hierapolis of Syria. 9. Judas the son of James, having preached Christ throughout all Mesopotamia, is perfected in Edessa and is buried there. 10. Simon, surnamed Judas, in Eleutheropolis and from Gaza as far as

Having preached Christ in Egypt, he is buried in the city of Ostracina in Egypt, having been crucified under the emperor Trajan. 11. Matthias, who was numbered among the eleven apostles in place of Judas, having preached Christ in first Ethiopia, and later also in Britain, having been crucified by them and having died, is buried there. 12. Simon the Zealot, having traversed all of Mauretania and the land of the Africans and having preached Christ, and later also in Britain, having been crucified by them and having died, is buried there. These things Dorotheus collected for us from Greek and Hebrew sources and transmitted in Roman commentaries, which we, having gathered as useful and acceptable, have made manifest, as well as how the beginning of the episcopate of Constantinople occurred, and from what lineage Metrophanes was descended. And we found these things in the historical writings of the aforementioned divine man Dorotheus, that Simon of Cyrene was crucified for Christ, [Concerning the prophet Jeremiah and the captivity of Jerusalem] and that Jeremiah, being a priest and prophet, having foreseen by divine spirit also the captivity of Jerusalem after the death of Josiah, king of Judah.

Concerning the Ark and the holy things in it. Taking the Mosaic Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant and all the holy things in it and all the vessels which Moses had made, he came to Mount Nebo, where Moses himself was buried, found a cave, and there deposited everything, and prayed a prayer that they not be revealed until the end of the age, and from then on the place became unrecognizable even to the priests who had deposited them together with Jeremiah. Concerning the daughter of Herodias. In the consulship of Galba and Sulla, under these consuls, the lake of Gennesaret having frozen from cold, the daughter of Herodias went out for pleasure upon the ice. When the ice broke, her body was swallowed by the water, but her head, severed by the ice, remained above. And Herodias, placing her daughter's head on her knees and weeping, confessed that this had befallen her because she had asked for the head of John the Baptist. And Herod also, who was king of the Jews and had been tetrarch, died having become worm-eaten. And Pilate succeeded Herod, inasmuch as before the eyes of Herod both his four sons and this Herodias, from whom he had them, having become worm-eaten, expired. But also Herod, having become worm-eaten around the genitals and the whole body, wretchedly breathed his last.

Pilate, having seen with his own eyes that Herod and his four sons had become worm-eaten and expired, took all his possessions and inherited from him; but also this adulteress Herodias, together with her four sons and Herod, having become worm-eaten, breathed her last. A certain Procopius, deemed worthy of the presbyterate, distinguished in life and word of piety, and always exercised in all diligence and experience concerning the Scriptures, and having encountered the historical writings of the most holy and most blessed bishop and martyr Dorotheus, has left all these things to us, having compiled them in writing. Thanks, therefore, to his labors and his immortal memory, now and always and unto the ages of ages, amen.