(Updated July 15, 2025)
This Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from the Ecclesiastical Writer, Caius the Presbyter.
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Treatises
Caius the Presbyter, Disputation with Proclus, quoted in Eusebius, Church History (c. 210)
(§6) It [the martyrdom of Peter and Paul in Rome] is confirmed likewise by Caius, a member of the Church, who arose under [St. Pope] Zephyrinus, bishop of Rome. He, in a published disputation with Proclus, the leader of the Phrygian heresy [Montanists], speaks as follows concerning the places where the sacred corpses of the aforesaid apostles are laid:
(§7) “But I can show the trophies of the apostles. For if you will go to the Vatican or to the Ostian way, you will find the trophies of those who laid the foundations of this church.”
Fragments
Caius the Presbyter, Fragments
The Papacy and the Invincibility of the Church | Fragment 2
Fragment 2: Against the Heresy of Artemon
For they [heretics] say that all those of the first age, and the apostles themselves, both received and taught those things which these men now maintain; and that the truth of Gospel preaching was preserved until the times of [St. Pope] Victor, who was the thirteenth bishop in Rome from Peter, and that from his successor Zephyrinus the truth was falsified. And perhaps what they allege might be credible, did not the Holy Scriptures, in the first place, contradict them. And then, besides, there are writings of certain brethren older than the times of Victor, which they wrote against the heathen in defense of the truth, and against the heresies of their time: I mean Justin and Miltiades, and Tatian and Clement, and many others, in all which divinity is ascribed to Christ. For who is ignorant of the books of Irenaeus and Melito, and the rest, which declare Christ to be God and man? All the psalms, too, and hymns of brethren, which have been written from the beginning by the faithful, celebrate Christ the Word of God, ascribing divinity to Him. Since the doctrine of the Church, then, has been proclaimed so many years ago, how is it possible that men have preached, up to the time of [St. Pope] Victor, in the manner asserted by these? And how are they not ashamed to utter these calumnies against Victor, knowing well that Victor excommunicated Theodotus the tanner, the leader and father of this God-denying apostasy, who first affirmed that Christ was a mere man? For if, as they allege, Victor entertained the very opinions which their blasphemy teaches, how should he have cast off Theodotus, the author of this heresy?
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