The God-Fearin’ Fiddler is a recent convert to Catholicism and an ardent blogger on matters related to the Church Fathers. His recent post on Eusebius and apostolic succession is quite good. I hope you’ll drop in and tell him what you think.

An excellent — though extremely rare — book on the same subject is Apostolikos Thronos: The Primacy of Rome as Reflected in the Church History of Eusebius and the Historico-Apologetic Writings of Saint Athanasius the Great. It’s by the great contemporary Irish patrologist Vincent Twomey. I understand that the book is Father Twomey’s doctoral dissertation, which he started under Joseph Ratzinger, but completed under another advisor when Dr. Ratzinger got called away to Rome. Followers of the Fathers know Twomey’s name from his other works: Studies in Patristic Christology, for example, and The Mystery of the Holy Trinity in the Fathers of the Church. And I see that he has a new book just out, Pope Benedict XVI: The Conscience of Our Age. Watch for Eusebius in the footnotes!

UPDATE: God-Fearin’ Fiddler just followed up his Eusebius post with Part II.