Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Church History of Eusebius/Book VI/Chapter 26

Heraclas becomes Bishop of Alexandria.

was in the tenth year of the above-mentioned reign that Origen removed from Alexandria to C&#230;sarea, leaving the charge of the catechetical school in that city to Heraclas. Not long afterward Demetrius, bishop of the church of Alexandria, died, having held the office for forty-three full years, and Heraclas succeeded him. At this time Firmilianus, bishop of C&#230;sarea in Cappadocia, was conspicuous.