164. For the succession of Alexandrian bishops, consult
Renaudot's History, p. 24, etc. This curious fact is
preserved by the patriarch Eutychius (Annal. tom. i. p. 332,
Vers. Pocock), and its internal evidence would alone be a
sufficient answer to all the objections which Bishop Pearson
has urged in the Vindiciae Ignatianae.