Constantine is believed to have exiled those who refused to accept the Nicean creed — Arius himself, the deacon Euzoios, and the Libyan bishops Theonas of Marmarica and Secundus of Ptolemais — and also the bishops who signed the creed but refused to join in condemnation of Arius, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea.

His advisor in these affairs was Eusebius of Nicomedia, who had already at the Council of Nicea been the head of the Arian party, who also was made bishop of Constantinople.

He had access to two works of Eusebius: the Historia Ecclesiastica, and also the Chronicon, though he had neither in the original Greek ; instead he had a Latin translation of the Historia, by Rufinus, and Saint Jerome's translation of the Chronicon.

Bede also followed Eusebius in taking the Acts of the Apostles as the model for the overall work: where Eusebius used the Acts as the theme for his description of the development of the church, Bede made it the model for his history of the Anglo-Saxon church.

This was based on parts of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, and Bede also include a chronology of the world which was derived from Eusebius, with some revisions based on Jerome's translation of the bible.

Eusebius ( c. 263 – 339 ) was inclined to class the Apocalypse with the accepted books but also listed it in the Antilegomena, with his own reservation for identification of John of Patmos with John the Apostle, pointing out there were large differences in Greek skill and styles between the Gospel of John, which he attributed to John the Apostle, and the Revelation.

2: 2 ; 3: 17 ; also Muratorian Canon 64 – 67 ; Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 6. 12. 3 ).

Eusebius is also the name of:

In his reply Eusebius not only regretted the whole controversy, but also stated that he would abide by the words of the Bible, according to which the bread and wine after the consecration become the body and blood of the Lord ( see transubstantiation ); if one asks how this can take place, the answer must be that it is not according to the order of nature but in accordance with the divine omnipotence ; at any rate one must be careful not to give offense to the plain Christian.

It is also possible that the fact impressed itself upon Eusebius that the religious consciousness of the time more and more opposed Berengar.

Eusebius ( c. AD 263 – 339 ) ( also called Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius Pamphili ) was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist.

The name may also indicate that Eusebius was made Pamphilus ' heir.

Eusebius also wrote treatises on Biblical archaeology:

Christ is God and is a ray of the eternal light ; but the figure of the ray is so limited by Eusebius that he expressly distinguishes the Son as distinct from Father as a ray is also distinct from its source the sun.

" In the longer text of the Martyrs of Palestine, chapter 12, Eusebius states: " I think it best to pass by all the other events which occurred in the meantime: such as [...] the lust of power on the part of many, the disorderly and unlawful ordinations, and the schisms among the confessors themselves ; also the novelties which were zealously devised against the remnants of the Church by the new and factious members, who added innovation after innovation and forced them in unsparingly among the calamities of the persecution, heaping misfortune upon misfortune.

* However, Gibbon also calls Eusebius the ' gravest ' of the ecclesiastical historians: " The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses, that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

* With reference to Gibbon's comments, Joseph Barber Lightfoot ( late 19th century theologian and former Bishop of Durham ) pointed out that Eusebius ' statements indicate his honesty in stating what he was not going to discuss, and also his limitations as a historian in not including such material.

" Lightfoot also notes that Eusebius cannot always be relied on: " A far more serious drawback to his value as a historian is the loose and uncritical spirit in which he sometimes deals with his materials.

Elsewhere in his Church History, Eusebius reports seeing what he took to be portraits of Jesus, Peter and Paul, and also mentions a bronze statue at Banias / Paneas, of which he wrote, " They say that this statue is an image of Jesus " ( H. E.

In the same Book I chapter, in items 7 and 8 Eusebius also discusses the Josephus reference to the crucifixion of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a reference that is present in all surviving Eusebius manuscripts.

Although Eusebius wrote of eight books of the work, only seven undoubtably survive.

* Hwaetberht ( died 740s ), Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory, who wrote under the pen-name of Eusebius

His successor at the see of Caesarea, Acacius, wrote a Life of Eusebius, but this work has been lost.

After the Emperor's death ( c. 337 ), Eusebius wrote the Life of Constantine, an important historical work because of eye witness accounts and the use of primary sources.

Lastly, Eusebius wrote eulogies in praise of Constantine.

In his Church History or Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius wrote the first surviving history of the Christian Church as a chronologically-ordered account, based on earlier sources complete from the period of the Apostles to his own epoch.

Arnaldo Momigliano wrote that in Eusebius's mind " chronology was something between an exact science and an instrument of propaganda " Drake in the 21st century treats Eusebius as working within the framework of a " totalizing discourse " that viewed the world from a single point of view that excluded anything he thought inappropriate.

Initially growing up in Bithynia, raised by his maternal grandmother, at the age of seven he was under the guardianship of Eusebius of Nicomedia, the semi-Arian Christian Bishop of Nicomedia, and taught by Mardonius, a Gothic eunuch, whom Julian wrote warmly of later.

" Although Eusebius believed the Apostle wrote the Gospel and the epistles, it is likely that doubt about the fidelity of the author of 2 and 3 John was a factor in causing them to be disputed.

However, Eusebius of Caesarea, ( AD 260 – 340 ), one of the earliest and most comprehensive of church historians, wrote of Christ's disciples in Demonstratio Evangelica, saying that " some have crossed the Ocean and reached the Isles of Britain.

Eusebius wrote an extant reply to the pamphlet of Hierocles, where he claimed that Philostratus was a fabulist and that Apollonius was a sorcerer in league with demons.

Eusebius of Caesarea wrote that the " Greek translation the Bible also differs from the Hebrew, though not so much from the Samaritan " and noted that the Septuagint agrees with the Samaritan Pentateuch in the number of years elapsed from Noah's Flood to Abraham.

* Diocles of Cnidus, Greek philosopher who wrote a work quoted by Eusebius

Ever since the 2nd century, some bishoprics in the Eastern Roman Empire had counted years from the birth of Christ, but there was no agreement on the correct epoch — Clement of Alexandria () and Eusebius of Caesarea () wrote about these attempts.

About the origins of the Gospels, Papias ( as quoted by Eusebius ) Quoting John the Elder wrote:

Eusebius of Caesaria wrote for Crispus that he is " an Imperator most dear to God and in all regards comparable to his father.

In explaining his actions against Arius, Alexander of Alexandria wrote a letter to Alexander of Constantinople and Eusebius of Nicomedia ( where the emperor was then residing ), detailing the errors into which he believed Arius had fallen.

One explanation ( that goes back to Eusebius of Caesarea in the fourth century ) is that John wrote his gospel not to overlap with the synoptic gospels, but to supplement it, and hence did not include all of their narrative.

A leading participant in the Council, Eusebius of Caesarea, wrote: " It is fitting that those in the priesthood and occupied in the service of God, should abstain after ordination from the intercourse of marriage.

The date of Hegesippus is insecurely fixed by the statement of Eusebius that the death and apotheosis of Antinous ( 130 ) occurred in Hegesippus ' lifetime, and that he came to Rome under Pope St. Anicetus and wrote in the time of Pope St. Eleuterus ( Bishop of Rome, ca 174-189 ).

Hegesippus ' works are now entirely lost, save eight passages concerning Church history quoted by Eusebius, who tells us that he wrote Hypomnemata ( Ὑπομνήματα ; " Memoirs " or " Memoranda ") in five books, in the simplest style concerning the tradition of the Apostolic preaching.

Through Eusebius Hegesippus was also known to Jerome, who is responsible for the idea that Hegesippus " wrote a history of all ecclesiastical events from the passion of our Lord down to his own period ... in five volumes ", which has established the Hypomnemata as a Church history.