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==67 A.D. to 200 A.D.

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|+ style="background:#cedff2; text-align:center; border: 1px solid #B8C7D9;"|'''Early Bishops of Rome''' (from ''Liber Pontificalus'', a Roman Catholic document)
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!Name
!Start
!End
!Significant activity
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|Linus
||67
||79
||Taught that women should cover their heads.
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|Anacletus
||79
||88
||Ordained a number of priests
|-
|Clement I
||88
||98
||Wrote a letter to the Corinthians
|-
|Evaristus
||98
||105
||None known
|-
|Alexander I
||105
||115
||None known
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|Sixtus	
||117	
||126	
||Decreed that 
*Only ministers can touch the holy vessels, 
*Bishops returning from visiting Rome should not be accepted without a letter, 
*Priests should recite the Sanctus (a song) with the people.   
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|Telesphorus	
||126	
||137	
||Started to celebrate Easter on the Sunday after Passover
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|Hyginus
||138	
||140	
||Defined the grades of ecclesiastical hierarchy
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|Pius 	
||140	
||154	
||None known
|-
|Anicetus
||154	
||167	
||Moderately condemned the heresy of Montanism, Gnosticism and Marcionism. Met with Polycarp and accepted that the date of the celebration of Easter should be decided by churches individually.
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|Soter
||167	
||174	
||Decreed that marriage is only valid if blessed by a priest. 
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