What Is Ecclesiastical History?

The Church History of Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century. It was written in Koine Greek, and survives also in Latin, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts.

Who wrote Ecclesiastical History?

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731. The work tells the story of the conversion of the English people to Christianity. Bede's account is the chief source of information about English history from the arrival of St Augustine in Kent in 597 until 731.

When was ecclesiastical history written?

… whose Historia ecclesiastica (written 312–324; Ecclesiastical History) was the first important work of Christian history since the Acts of the Apostles. For Eusebius, the Roman Empire was the divinely appointed and necessary milieu for the propagation of the Christian faith.