other · 180 · Alexandria
Eusebius writes that about that time Pantaenus, a man highly distinguished for his learning, had charge of the school of the faithful in Alexandria, and that a school of sacred learning, which continues to our day, was established there in ancient times. He is called a Stoic before his conversion, and what the Alexandrian school became under him and after him — Clement, then Origen — is the reason the phrase Christian philosophy means anything. Eusebius' sequence is not clean and he does not pretend otherwise: he gives the school first, then the voyage to India, then says that after many good deeds Pantaenus finally became head of the school at Alexandria. His editor calls the closing statement dark and says the whole account rests on hearsay. The order here — school, then India — is a reconstruction and is offered as one.
To teach — and, on Eusebius' account, to have charge of a school that was already old when he took it.
Clement under him, Origen after Clement, and the one place in the second-century church where Greek learning was taken as an instrument rather than an enemy.