Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 62
62 Alexander the bishop PL 23, 673
Alexander, bishop of Cappadocia, desiring to visit the Holy Land, came to Jerusalem, at the time when Narcissus, bishop of this city, already an old man, ruled the church. It was revealed to Narcissus and many of his clergy, that on the morning of the next day, a bishop would enter the city, who should be assistant on the sacerdotal throne. And so it came to pass, as it was predicted, and all the bishops of Palestine being gathered together, Narcissus himself being especially urgent, Alexander took with him the helm of the church of Jerusalem. At the end of one of his epistles, written to the Antinoites On the peace of the church, he says “Narcissus, who held the bishopric here before me, and now with me exercises his office by his prayers, being about a hundred and sixteen years old, salutes you, and with me begs you to become of one mind.” He wrote another also To the Antiocheans, by the hand of Clement, the presbyter of Alexandria, of whom we spoke above, another also To Origen, and In behalf of Origen against Demetrius, called forth by the fact that, according to the testimony of Demetrius, he had made Origen presbyter. There are other epistles of his to different persons. In the seventh persecution under Decius, at the time when Babylas of Antioch was put to death, brought to Cæsarea and shut up in prison, he received the crown of martyrdom for confessing Christ.
Alexander, episcopus Cappadociae, cum desiderio sanctorum locorum Hierosolymam pergeret, et Narcissus episcopus ejusdem urbis jam senex regeret Ecclesiam, et Narcisso et multis clericorum ejus revelatum est, altera die mane intrare episcopum, qui adjutor sacerdotalis cathedrae esse deberet. Itaque re ita completa, ut praedicta fuerat, cunctis in Palaestina episcopis in unum congregatis, adnitente quoque ipso vel maxime Narcisso, Hierosolymitanae Ecclesiae cum eo gubernaculum suscepit. Hic in fine cujusdam epistolae, 903 quam scribit ad Antinoitas super pace Ecclesiae ait: Salutat vos Narcissus, qui ante me hic tenuit episcopalem locum, et nunc mecum eumdem orationibus regit, annos natus circiter centum sedecim, et vos mecum precatur ut unum idemque sapiatis. Scripsit et aliam ad Antiochenses, per Clementem presbyterum Alexandriae, de quo supra diximus, nec non ad Origenem, et pro Origene contra Demetrium; eo quod juxta testimonium Demetrii eum presbyterum constituerit. Sed et aliae ejus ad diversos feruntur epistolae. Septima autem persecutione sub Decio, quo tempore Babylas Antiochiae passus est, ductus Caesaream, et clausus in carcere, ob confessionem Christi martyrio coronatur.
Ἀλέξανδρος, ἐπίσκοπος Καππαδοκίας, πόθῳ τῶν ἁγίων τόπων ἐπιστὰς τῇ Ἱεροσολύμων, τοῦ ἐπισκόπου Ναρκίσσου τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἤδη γεγηρακότος, καὶ τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν κυβερνῶντος, αὐτῷ τε τῷ Ναρκίσσῳ καὶ πολλοῖς κληρικοῖς αὐτοῦ ἀπεκαλύφθη μέλλειν τῇ ἑξῆς ἕωθεν εἰσιέναι ἐπίσκοπον τὸν ὀφείλοντα βοηθὸν γενέσθαι τῆς ἱερατικῆς καθέδρας. Τοῦ πράγματος τοίνυν καθὼς προεμηνύθη πληρωθέντος, πάντων τῶν ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ ἐπισκόπων ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ συναχθέντων, συνεπινεύοντος αὐτοῖς Ναρκίσσου, τὴν κυβέρνησιν τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις Ἐκκλησίας σὺν αὐτῷ ἀνεδέξατο. Οὗτος ἐν τῷ τέλει μιᾶς ἐπιστολῆς γραφείσης παρ' αὐτοῦ πρὸς Ἀντινοΐτας, περὶ τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς 904 εἰρήνης, ἔφη· « Ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Νάρκισσος ὃς πρὸ ἐμοῦ εἴχετο τῆς ἐνταῦθα ἐπισκοπῆς, καὶ νῦν τὸν αὐτὸν ἰθύνων μετ' ἐμοῦ εὐχόμενος ἐπέχει, ἐνιαυτὸν ἄγων ἑκατοστοεξκαιδέκατον, δεόμενος ὑμῶν ἅμα ἐμοὶ, ἵνα τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ ἓν φρονήσητε. » Ἔγραψε καὶ ἄλλην πρὸς Ἀντιοχεῖς διὰ Κλήμεντος πρεσβυτέρου Ἀλεξανδρείας, περὶ οὗ προεῖπον· οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς Ὠριγένην καὶ ὑπὲρ Ὠριγένους κατὰ Δημητρίου, καὶ ὅτι προσμαρτυρούντος Δημητρίου πρεσβύτερον αὐτὸν ἐχειροτόνησε. Καὶ ἄλλαι δὲ αὐτοῦ πρὸς διαφόρους φέρονται ἐπιστολαί. Τῷ δὲ ἑβδόμῳ διωγμῷ ἐπὶ Δεκίου ἡνίκα καὶ Βαβύλας ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ ἔπαθεν ἀχθεὶς Καισάρειαν, καὶ εἰς φυλακὴν ἐγκλεισθεὶς, διὰ τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐξομολόγησιν ἐμαρτύρησεν.