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Around the year 30
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Year 50
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Year 95
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Around year 30, 3 days after the Crucifixion
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Year 44
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Year 62
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Mid-60s
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Year 69
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Year 27
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Years 76-88
he ordained a certain number of priests is nearly all we have of positive record about him, but we know he died a martyr, perhaps about 91. -
Years 67-76
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Years 88-97
According to Tertullian, writing c. 199, the Roman Church claimed that Clement was ordained by St. Peter, and St. Jerome tells us that in his time "most of the Latins" held that Clement was the immediate successor of the Apostle. -
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According to the "Liber Pontificalis", he passed the following three ordinances: (1) that none but sacred ministers are allowed to touch the sacred vessels; (2) that bishops who have been summoned to the Holy See shall, upon their return, not be received by their diocese except on presenting Apostolic letters; (3) that after the Preface in the Mass the priest shall recite the Sanctus with the people.
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Telesphorus is mentioned as one of the Roman bishops who always celebrated Easter on Sunday, without, however, abandoning church fellowship with those communities that did not follow this custom.
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The "Liber Pontificalis" also relates that this pope organized the hierarchy and established the order of ecclesiastical precedence. This general observation recurs also in the biography of Pope Hormisdas; it has no historical value, and according to Duchesne, the writer probably referred to the lower orders of the clergy.
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The "Liber Pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, 132) says the father of Pius was Rufinus, and makes him a native of Aquileia
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While Anicetus was Pope, St. Polycarp, then in extreme old age, came to confer with him (160-162) about the Paschal controversy; Polycarp and others in the East celebrating the feast on the fourteenth of the month of Nisan, no matter on what day of the week it fell; whereas in Rome it was always observed on Sunday, and the day of the Lord's death on Friday.
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The letter which Soter had written in the name of his church is lost, though Harnack and others have attempted to identify it with the so-called "Second Epistle of Clement"
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From his contemporary Hegesippus we learn that he was a deacon of the Roman Church under Pope Anicetus (c. 154-164), and evidently remained so under St. Soter, the following pope, whom he succeeded about 174.
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In fact the Church of St. Callistus is close by, containing a well into which legend says his body was thrown, and this is probably the church he built, rather than the more famous basilica.
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The dissension produced in the Roman Church by Hippolytus continued to exist during Urban's pontificate. Hippolytus and his adherents persisted in schism; it was probably during the reign of Urban that Hippolytus wrote his "Philosophumena", in which he attacked Pope Callistus severely.
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The schism of Hippolytus continued during his episcopate; towards the end of his pontificate there was a reconciliation between the schismatic party and its leader with the Roman bishop.
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Reign lasts forty days
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During his reign of fourteen years there was a lull in the storm of persecution. Little is known of his pontificate.
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About the beginning of March, 251 the persecution slackened, owing to the absence of the emperor, against whom two rivals had arisen. It was possible to assemble sixteen bishops at Rome, and Cornelius was elected though against his will, "by the judgment of God and of Christ, by the testimony of almost all the clergy, by the vote of the people then present, by the consent of aged priests and of good men”
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The persecution of the Church under the Emperor Gallus, during which Cornelius had been banished, still went on. Lucius also was sent into exile soon after his consecration, but in a short time, presumably when Valerian was made emperor, he was allowed to return to his flock.
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Most of what we know regarding Pope Stephen is connected directly or indirectly with the severe teachings of the heretic Novatus.
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During the pontificate of his predecessor, St. Stephen, a sharp dispute had arisen between Rome and the African and Asiatic Churches, concerning the rebaptism of heretics, which had threatened to end in a complete rupture between Rome and the Churches of Africa and Asia Minor.
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The rite for blessing the produce of the fields, ascribed to him by the "Liber Pontificalis", undoubtedly belongs to a later period. The statement also that he promulgated rules for the burial of martyrs and buried many of them with his own hands, has but slight claim to acceptance.
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He protected Christian men and women of rank against the excesses of the heathen rabble, and his son Caracalla had a Christian wet nurse.
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Immediately after his elevation to the Roman See, Zephyrinus called to Rome the confessor Callistus, who lived at Antium and who had received a monthly pension from Pope Victor, and intrusted him with the oversight of the coemeterium.
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It was not until the persecution had begun to subside that Dionysius was raised (22 July, 259) to the office of Bishop of Rome. Some months later the Emperor Gallienus issued his edict of toleration, which brought the persecution to an end and gave a legal existence to the Church.
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According to the "Liber Pontificalis" he was a Roman, son of a certain Projectus. The Liberian Catalogue of popes gives 30 June as the day of his election, and the years 296-304 as the time of his pontificate.
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Felix erected a basilica on the Via Aurelia; the same source also adds that he was buried there.
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He is mentioned in the fourth-century "Depositio Episcoporum". He was buried in the chapel of the popes in that cemetery.
