Of these the most distinguished were: Firmilian, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia; the brothers Gregory and Athenodore, pastors of the parishes in Pontus; and besides these, Helenus of the parish at Tarsus, and Nicomas of the one at Iconium; moreover Hymenaeus of the church at Jerusalem, and Theotecnus of the neighbouring church of Caesarea, and Maximus besides these; and this man too presided with distinction over the brethren at Bostra. And one would not be at a loss to reckon up countless others as well, together with presbyters and deacons, who were gathered at that time in the aforesaid city for the same cause; but these were the most eminent among them.
When, then, all were coming together at various times and frequently to the same place, discussions and inquiries were stirred up at each synod: the party around the Samosatene attempting still to conceal and to cloak what was heterodox, while the others were earnestly engaged in laying bare and bringing into the open his heresy and his blasphemy against Christ.
At this time Dionysius died, in the twelfth year of the reign of Gallienus, having presided over the episcopate at Alexandria for seventeen years; and Maximus succeeded him.
And when Gallienus had held the principate for fifteen full years, Claudius was established as his successor. And when he had passed his second year, he handed over the rule to Aurelian,