EUSEBIUS, bishop of Rome for four months under the em peror Maxentius, in 309 or 310. The Christians in Rome, divided on the question of the reconciliation of apostates, on which Eusebius held the milder view, brought forward a competitor, Heraclius. Both competitors were expelled by the emperor. Euse bius was buried in St. Calixtus, at Rome. The epitaph, in eight hexameter lines, set up by his successor Damascus, contains all the available information.