Epistle
IV.—To Cornelius the Roman Bishop.
830
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In addition to all these, he writes likewise to
Cornelius at Rome after receiving his Epistle against Novatus.
And in that letter he also shows that he had been invited by Helenus,
bishop in Tarsus of Cilicia, and by the others who were with
him—namely, Firmilian, bishop in Cappadocia, and Theoctistus in
Palestine—to meet them at the Council of Antioch, where certain
persons were attempting to establish the schism of Novatus. In
addition to this, he writes that it was reported to him that Fabius was
dead, and that Demetrianus was appointed his successor in the bishopric
of the church at Antioch. He writes also respecting the bishop in
Jerusalem, expressing himself in these very words: “And the
blessed Alexander, having been cast into prison, went to his rest in
blessedness.”
830
Eusebius,
Hist. Eccles.
, vi. 46.