Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Alexander of Cappadocia/Translator's Biographical Notice

Alexander of Cappadocia.

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Translator&#8217;s Biographical Notice.

[ 170&#8211;233&#8211;251.] Alexander was at first bishop of a church in Cappadocia, but on his visiting Jerusalem he was appointed to the bishopric of the church there, while the previous bishop Narcissus was alive, in consequence of a vision which was believed to be divine. During the Decian persecution he was thrown into prison at C&#230;sarea, and died there, 251. The only writings of his which we know are those from which the extracts are made.