other · 231 · Caesarea Maritima
On a journey through Palestine the bishops of Caesarea and Jerusalem ordained Origen presbyter. Demetrius of Alexandria, who had already objected to his preaching there as a layman, treated the ordination as an outrage and, Eusebius says, wrote of his deed as most foolish to the bishops throughout the world — and dared to include in the accusation the men who had raised him to the presbyterate. Two Alexandrian synods are said to have deposed and excommunicated him, though Eusebius does not describe them and the detail comes from Photius and Jerome. Alexander of Jerusalem and Theoctistus of Caesarea had earlier defended in writing his right to preach as a layman; Theoctistus has no row in this dataset. What Eusebius does say plainly is the outcome: in the tenth year of that reign Origen removed from Alexandria to Caesarea, leaving the charge of the catechetical school to Heraclas. The school and library he built at Caesarea are where Pamphilus and then Eusebius worked, which is one reason so much of this dataset can be written at all.
To be ordained where he was welcome, having been refused where he was not — and, after the rupture, to build a school and a library somewhere else.
The most productive scholar of the early church working for twenty years outside the city that made him, and a library that Eusebius would later use to write his history.