Eusebius, Bishop Of Rome
EUSEBIUS, BISHOP OF ROME, bishop for four months under the emperor Maxentius, in 309 or 310. The Christians in Rome, divided on the question of the reconciliation of apostates, on which Eusebius held the milder view, brought forward a competitor, Heraclius. Both competitors were expelled by the emperor, Eusebius dying in exile in Sicily. He was buried in the cemetery of St Calixtus at Rome; and the extant epitaph, in eight hexameter lines, set up here by his successor Damasus, contains all the information there is about his life.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
