Polycarp, Philippians, praef., Πολύκαρπος καὶ οἱ σύν αὐτῷ πρεσβύτεροι, cf. A. Brent, Ignatius of
Antioch: A Martyr Bishop and the Origin of Episcopacy (London: Continuum, 2007), 12–13, 149–50.
Clement, C or. 44.5.
Ibid., C or. 44.1.
Dionysius of Corinth, apud Eusebius, HE IV.23.11.
I came to this conclusion in my article, A. Brent, “Pseudonymity and Charisma in the Ministry
of the Early Church,” Augustinianum, 27.3 (1987): 347–76. In the following year, I was pleased to observe
corroboration in P. Lampe, Die stadtrömischen Christen in den ersten beiden Jahrhunderten (Wissenschaftliche
Untersuchungen zum neuen Testament 2.18; Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 1987/1989), 339.
Hegesippus, apud Eusebius, HE IV.22.2.
Ibid., IV.22.1.
Diogenes Laertius, Lives. See A. Brent, “Diogenes Laertius and the Apostolic Succession,” JEH 44, no.
3 (1993): 372–75.
See my account of this phenomenon in A. Brent, Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic: A Study
of an Early Christian Transformation of Pagan Culture, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 36
(Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006).
Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I.11.1 (1197–1199), and Brent (1995), 420–27.
Elenchos IX.12.26.
Ibid., IX.12.20-21.
Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. IV.6.2 (27–29); V.26.12 (76–79), cf. Eusebius, HE IV.18.9. See also J. Armitage
Robinson, “On a Quotation from Justin Martyr in Irenaeus,” JTS 31, no. 4 (1930): 374–78.
See above, footnote 11 and associated text.
Eusebius, HE IV.23.9-10.
Eusebius, HE V.4.2.
1 Tim. 4:14.
1 Cor. 5:4-5.
Rom. 16:23.
Clement, C or. 44.3. See also B. E. Bowe, A Church in Crisis: Ecclesiology and Paraenesis in Clement of
Rome, Harvard Dissertations in Religion 23 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1988), and A. Brent, A Political His-
tory of Early Christianity (New York: Continuum, 2009), 176–78.
Ap. Trad. 2. I translate here from the Verona Latin Palimpsest, noting that the variation in S(AE) is
indicative of some tampering in the textual transmission.
E. C. Ratcliff, “‘Apostolic Tradition’: Questions Concerning the Appointment of the Bishop,” in Liturgi-
cal Studies, edited by A. H. Couratin and D. H. Tripp (London: SPCK, 1976), 156–60. See also Brent (1995),
468–71; P. Bradshaw et al., The Apostolic Tradition: Translation and Commentary, Hermeneia (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 2002), 1–17; and A. Stewart-Sykes, Hippolytus, on the Apostolic Tradition, an English Transla-
tion with Introduction and Commentary (Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2001), 50.