CHAPTER IX

BISHOPS OF ANTIOCH AND ROME

DURING this period Porphyry received the episcopate of Antioch upon the death of Flavian: and after him Alexander was set over that church. But at Rome, Damasus having held that bishopric eighteen years, was succeeded by Siricius; who after presiding there fifteen years, left it to Anastasius: three years after Innocent was promoted to the same see, and was the first persecutor of the Novatians at Rome, many of whose churches he took away.