The church history of Sozomen, a lawyer of Constantinople, covering the years 324 to 425: the councils, the bishops, the monks of Egypt and Syria, and the emperors from Constantine to Theodosius the Second. In modern English from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation (1890), checked against it chapter by chapter.
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Contents
Book 1
1The Author’s Preface2The Great Bishops, and the Christians East and West3The Vision of the Cross4The Cross Carried into Battle5The Story about Crispus Refuted6Constantius, and the Spread of the Faith under Constantine7Licinius Turns on the Christians and Falls8Constantine’s Laws for the Christians9A Law for the Unmarried and for the Clergy10The Great Confessors Who Survived11Saint Spyridon, Bishop in Cyprus12The Monks and the Beginnings of Their Way of Life13Antony the Great and Paul the Simple14Ammon the Egyptian and Eutychian of Olympus15How the Arian Dispute Began16Constantine Sends Hosius to Make Peace17The Council Gathers at Nicaea18Two Philosophers Won Over by Two Simple Old Men19The Emperor Addresses the Council20The Council Agrees on the Faith21The Council’s Ruling on Arius and the Passover22Acesius the Novatian Summoned to the Council23The Canons, and Paphnutius on Married Clergy24The Council’s Ruling on Melitius25The Emperor’s Festival and Farewell to the Bishops