Ecclesiastical History

Bishops it dates

Jerusalem — HE 4.5

• Cyril of Jerusalem

Seleucia-Ctesiphon — HE 2.9-14

• Shimun bar Sabbae

People it attests

• Ephrem the Syrian 2 claims
• Hilarion 2 claims
• Shimun bar Sabbae 2 claims
• Cyril of Jerusalem 1 claim
• Didymus the Blind 1 claim
• Evagrius Ponticus 1 claim
• Gregory of Nazianzus 1 claim
• John Chrysostom 1 claim
• Macarius of Egypt 1 claim
• Olympias the Deaconess 1 claim
• Pachomius the Great 1 claim
• Shapur II 1 claim
• Sozomen 1 claim
• Theodore of Mopsuestia 1 claim

Events it narrates

• Hilarion takes to the desert by Gaza 308
• Pachomius is conscripted and converted 313
• Macarius settles in Scetis 330
• Great Persecution of Shapur II 340
• Didymus at the head of the catechetical school 345
• Ephrem leaves Nisibis for Edessa 363
• Hilarion withdraws to Cyprus 365
• Theodore leaves the ascetic life and John's letter brings him back 371
• Ephrem organises the famine relief at Edessa 372
• Evagrius is made archdeacon at Constantinople 380
• Olympias before the prefect 404
• Sozomen writes the Ecclesiastical History 443

Works it describes

• The Rule of Pachomius rule