Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 66

St Jerome (AD 345–420) · De viris illustribus · PL 23, 598–720

66 Cornelius the bishop PL 23, 677

Cornelius, bishop of Rome, to whom eight letters of Cyprian are extant, wrote a letter to Fabius, bishop of the church at Antioch, On the Roman, Italian, and African councils, and another On Novatian and those who had fallen from the faith, a third On the acts of the council, and a fourth very prolix one to the same Fabius, containing the causes of the Novatian heresy and an anathema of it. He ruled the church for two years under Gallus and Volusianus. He received the crown of martyrdom for Christ, and was succeeded by Lucius.

Cornelius, Romanae urbis episcopus, ad quem octo Cypriani exstant epistolae, scripsit epistolam ad Fabium Antiochenae Ecclesiae episcopum, de synodo Romana, Italica, Africana, et aliam de Novatiano, et de his qui lapsi sunt; tertiam de gestis synodi ; quartam ad eumdem Fabium valde prolixam, et Novatianae haereseos 907 causas et anathema continentem. Rexit Ecclesiam annis duobus sub Gallo et Volusiano, cui ob Christum martyrio coronato, successit Lucius.

Κορνήλιος, Ῥώμης ἐπίσκοπος, πρὸς ὃν ὀκτὼ Κυπριανοῦ ἐπιστολαὶ τυγχάνουσιν, ἔγραψεν ἐπιστολὴν πρὸς Φλαβιανὸν Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπον περὶ τῆς συνόδου Ῥώμης, Ἰταλίας, καὶ Ἀφρικῆς, καὶ ἑτέραν περὶ Νωβατιανοῦ, καὶ τῶν ὀλισθησάντων· τρίτην περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ συνόδῳ πραχθέντων· τετάρτην πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν Φλαβιανὸν, πάνυ μεγάλην, καὶ τὰς αἰτίας τῆς Νωβατιανοῦ αἱρέσεως, καὶ ἀναθέματα περιέχουσαν. 908 Ἐκυβέρνησε τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν ἔτη δύο, Γάλλου καὶ Βολουσιανοῦ βασιλευόντων, ὅντινα μετὰ τὸ μαρτύριον τοῦ Χριστοῦ διεδέξατο Λούκιος.

Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (eds.), New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890-1900. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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