Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume II/Socrates/Book VII/Chapter 9

.&#8212;The Bishops of Antioch and Rome.

this period upon the death of Flavian

Porphyry received the episcopate of Antioch, and after him Alexander

was set over that church. But at Rome, Damasus having held that bishopric eighteen years Siricius succeeded him;

and Siricius having presided there fifteen years, Anastasius held sway over the church for three years; after Anastasius Innocent [was promoted to the same see]. He was the first persecutor of the Novatians at Rome, and many of their churches he took away.