5 d Alexandrian baths built at Rome. * 227
2 f Callistus received the 15th episcopate of the Roman church for five years. 220 6 e Geminus, priest of Antioch, Hippolytus, and Beryllus, bishop of Arabian Bostra, are considered important writers. 228
g The temple of Heliogabalus built at Rome. *
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3 h In Palestine Nicopolis, which previously used to be called Emmaus, was founded as a city, the labour of the embassy on its behalf being undertaken by Julius Africanus, the writer of the Chronicle . 221 7 f Zebennus is appointed 11th bishop of Antioch. 229
8 g Origen of Alexandria is considered important. 230
9 h Heraclas is ordained as the 12th bishop of the Alexandrian church for 16 years. 231
4 i Antoninus is slain at Rome, along with his mother Symiasera, in a military uprising. (*) 222 10 i Alexander was uniquely pious towards his mother, and because of this was pleasant to everyone. * 232
(1) Abgar VIII.
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253rd Olympiad 3 a Gordian, while very much a young man, having defeated the Parthian nation, when he was returning home a victor, he was killed by a stratagem of the praetorian prefect Philip not far from Roman soil. (*) 241
11 a Origen moves from Alexandria to Caesarea in Palestine. 233
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2250 12 b Pontianus received the 17th episcopate of the Roman church for five years. 234
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13 c Alexander is slain at Moguntiacum in a military uprising. 235 2260 6 b For Gordian the soldiers build a burial mound, which overlooks the Euphrates River, after his bones had been carried back to Rome. * 244
22nd of the Romans, Maximinus for 3 years.
24th of the Romans, Philip ruled for seven years.
1 d Maximinus was the first emperor chosen by the army from the military, without the authorization of the Senate. * 236
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1 c Philip makes his son Philip his colleage in power; and he first of all the Roman emperors was a Christian. (*) 245
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2 f 6th persecution. e Maximinus carries out a persecution against the priests of the churches. 237
2 d While the Philips were reigning, the millennium of the city of Rome was completed, because of which solemnity innumerable beasts were killed in the great circus and theatrical games celebrated in the Campus Martius, the people staying awake for three days and nights. 246