Heraclas Succeeds Demetrius

That was in the tenth year of the reign already mentioned. In that year Origen moved from Alexandria to Caesarea, leaving the school of instruction there in the hands of Heraclas. Not long afterward Demetrius, bishop of the church of Alexandria, died, after serving in that ministry for forty-three full years, and Heraclas succeeded him. At this time Firmilian, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, was prominent. [a]