Under the early Roman empire the place was known as Caesarea, and was the metropolis of Cilicia Secunda.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

In 1884, he was created by Pope Leo XIII Archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and sent to India as an Apostolic Delegate to report on the establishment of the hierarchy there.

Alexander was born at Arca Caesarea on 1 October, 208, with the name Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus.

He was poisoned at Caesarea, either by Eleanor of Aquitaine, the wife of Louis, or Melisende, the mother of Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem suggesting the draught.

Abbahu () was a Jewish Talmudist, known as an amora, who lived in the Land of Israel, of the 3rd amoraic generation ( about 279-320 ), sometimes cited as R. Abbahu of Caesarea ( Ḳisrin ).

Support for Arius from powerful bishops like Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius of Nicomedia, further illustrate how Arius ' subordinationist Christology was shared by other Christians in the Empire.

In Greece, he encountered an Ionian theologian, who has been identified as Athenagoras of Athens ; while in the east, he was taught by an Assyrian, sometimes identified with Tatian, and a Jew, who was possibly Theophilus of Caesarea.

Most scholars believe that Cyril was born and brought up in Caesarea of Palestine but some say he may have been born in Jerusalem because of his early knowledge of the city's layout, but this could have been attributed to research or information he learned after moving there to become bishop.

Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

Cyril got in trouble again when he appointed his nephew to bishop of Caesarea ; this was not the first time Cyril had appointed someone close to him to a high position in the Church.

Diocletian believed that Romanus of Caesarea was arrogant, and he left the city for Nicomedia in the winter, accompanied by Galerius.

( Acts, ) Other scholars have suggested that it was written from Caesarea or Ephesus.

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

He was presumably born in the town which he lived most of his adult life, Caesarea Maritima.

Eusebius was made presbyter by Agapius of Caesarea.

The information used to create the late-fourth-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

However, Athanasius of Alexandria became a more powerful opponent and in 334, he was summoned before a synod in Caesarea ( which he refused to attend ).

In the following year, he was again summoned before a synod in Tyre at which Eusebius of Caesarea presided.

This work was recently ( 2011 ) translated into the English language by David J. Miller and Adam C McCollum ( edited by Roger Pearse ) and was published under the name " Eusebius of Caesarea: Gospel Problems and Solutions.

Other sources attribute the early work to Hegesippus and Irenaeus, having been continued by Eusebius of Caesarea.

Eusebius of Caesarea may have continued the Liber Pontificalis into the 4th century.

It seems more likely that he continued his studies in Caesarea, where he read classical literature, philosophy and perhaps medicine.

Acts records that many years later, in 58, Agabus met Paul of Tarsus at Caesarea Maritima and warned him of his coming capture ; he bound his own hands and feet with Paul's belt to demonstrate what the Jews would do if he continued his journey to Jerusalem, though Paul would not be persuaded.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea the outbreak of violence left Libya depopulated to such an extent that a few years later new colonies had to be established there by the emperor Hadrian just to maintain the viability of continued settlement.

At the urging of Basil of Caesarea, Meletius wrote to Saint Athanasius, who however continued to support the Eustathians, and whose successor, Saint Peter of Alexandria, together with Pope Damasus I suspected Meletius of Arianism.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea the outbreak of violence left Libya depopulated to such an extent that a few years later new colonies had to be established there by the emperor Hadrian just to maintain the viability of continued settlement.

The disciples of Cyril and Methodius, among whom Clement of Ohrid, Naum and Constantine of Preslav, continued their educational work in Bulgaria, actively translating Christian texts, such as the Bible and the works of John Chrysostom, Basil of Caesarea, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Athanasius of Alexandria, as well as historic chronicles such as these of John Malalas and George Hamartolus, to Bulgarian.

Rufinus translated the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius of Caesarea and continued the work from the reign of Constantine I to the death of Theodosius I ( 395 ).

Saint Pamphilus () ( latter half of the 3rd century – February 16, 309 ), was a presbyter of Caesarea and chief among Catholic Biblical scholars of his generation.

Soon after Pamphilus settled in Caesarea ( ca.

Eusebius succeeded Agapius, as Bishop of Caesarea soon after 313 and played a prominent role at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

The emerald chalice at Genoa, which was obtained during the Crusades at Caesarea Maritima at great cost, has been less championed as the Holy Grail since an accident on the road, while it was being returned from Paris after the fall of Napoleon, revealed that the emerald was green glass.

A Hebrew inscription found in Caesarea dating to the late 3rd or early 4th century mentions Nazareth as the home of the priestly Hapizzez family after the Bar Kokhba revolt ( 132-135 AD ).

Eusebius of Caesarea, including the Praeparatio evangelica and the Demonstratio evangelica as well as the Historia ecclesiastica ( 1544-1546 ), Manuel Moschopulus ( 1545 ), Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( February 1547 ), Alexander of Tralles ( January 1548 ), Dio Cassius ( January 1548 ), Justin Martyr ( 1551 ), Xiphilinus ( 1551 ), Appian ( 1551 ), the last being completed, after Robert's departure from Paris, by his brother Charles, and appearing under his name.

Clement is put after Linus and Cletus / Anacletus in the earliest ( c. 180 ) account, that of Irenaeus, who is followed by Eusebius of Caesarea.

* Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum, Caesarea Maritima: a retrospective after two millennia ( Leiden, Brill, 1996 ).

Jerome brought the Greek chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea up to date as far as the year 378, after translating it into Latin.

Basil of Caesarea, throwing over the cause of Eustathius, championed that of Meletius who, returning in triumph to Antioch after the death of Valens, was hailed as the leader of Eastern orthodoxy.

Around 170 after traveling to Palestine, and probably visiting the library at Caesarea Maritima, Melito compiled the earliest known Christian canon of the Old Testament, a term he coined.

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.

In his note on this phrase, the translator Herbert Moore says: " According to the ' Apostolic Canons ', only the lower orders of clergy were allowed to marry after their appointment to office ; the Council in Trullo ordered that a bishop's wife should retire to a convent, or become a deaconess ; that of Caesarea, that if a priest marries after ordination he must be degraded.

López de Villalobos named Mindanao " Caesarea Karoli " after the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V of Spain.

In the 5th and 6th century AD it was the second largest city in Sharon valley, after Caesarea, populated by Christian and Samaritans, having an elaborate church and a prosperous glass industry.

Proceeding northwards, Leo seized Heraclea, gave it up after payment to him a large sum, and advanced as far as Caesarea.

Shortly after his brother's elevation to the episcopal See of Caesarea, Peter received from him priestly ordination, but subsequently, withdrawing from active affairs, resumed the life of a solitary ascetic.

Eusebius of Caesarea notes his theological learning and Lucian's vita ( composed after 327 ) reports that he founded a Didaskaleion, a school.

In particular a common text-type has been proposed to be found: in the ninth / tenth century Codex Koridethi ; in Minuscule 1 ( a Greek manuscript of the Gospels used, sparingly, by Erasmus in his 1516 printed Greek New Testament ); and in those Gospel quotations found in the third century works of Origen of Alexandria, which were written after he had settled in Caesarea.

In the course of their studies, men such as Tatian of Antioch ( flourished in 180 ), Clement of Alexandria ( died before 215 ), Hippolytus of Rome ( died in 235 ), Julius Africanus of Jerusalem ( died after 240 ), Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine ( 260-340 ), and Pseudo-Justin frequently quoted their predecessors, the Graeco-Jewish biblical chronographers of the Hellenistic period, thereby allowing discernment of more distant scholarship.

It was the easternmost of the North African Roman provinces, mainly in present Algeria, with its capital at Caesarea ( hence the name Caesariensis ; one of many cities simply named after the imperial cognomen that had become a title ), now Cherchell, and part in Morocco.

Gagik was killed by Byzantine orders in 1079, after his own peculiarly atrocious murder of the Archbishop of Caesarea ( today Kayseri in Turkey ).

There is even a special dolphin named after a famed 4th century Cappadoccian ascetic, Macrina, who apparently has two brothers Gregory ( i. e. Saint Gregory of Nyssa ) and Basil ( i. e. Basil the Great of Caesarea ).