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242 ; v ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. CHAPTER XXI. The bishops thai were noted at this time. ANTONINE reigned seven years and six months, and was suc ceeded by Macrinus ; and he, after the lapse of a year, was suc ceeded by another Antonine, in the sovereignty of Rome. In the first year of the latter, Zephyrinus the bishop of Rome, depart ed this life, after having charge of the church eighteen years. He was succeeded in the episcopate by Callisthus, who survived him five years, and left the church to Urbanus. After these the government of Rome was held by the emperor Alexander, Anto nine having lived only four years from the commencement of his reign. At this time also, Philetas succeeds Asclepiades in the church of Antioch. But Mamaea, the emperor's mother, a woman distinguished for her piety and religion, when the fame of Origen had now been every where spread abroad, so that it also reached her ears, was very eager both to be honoured with a sight of the man, and to make trial of his skill in divine things so greatly extolled. Therefore, whilst staying at Alexandria, she sent for him by a military escort. With her he staid some time, exhibiting innumerable matters calculated to promote the glory of the Lord, and to evince the excellence of divine instruction, after which he hastened back again to his accustomed engage ments. CHAPTER XXII. The ivorks of Hippolytus, that have reached us. AT the same time, Hippolytus, who composed many other treatises, also wrote a work on the passover. In this he traces back the series of times, and presents a certain canon comprising a period of sixteen years, on the Passover, limiting his computa tion of the times to the first year of the emperor Alexander,