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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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|Eleuterus | |||
||174 | |||
||189 | |||
||Decree that no kind of food should be despised by Christians. Mild response to Montanism | |||
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|Victor I | |||
||189 | |||
||199 | |||
||From Africa, he (1) started mass in latin, and (2) excommunicated himself from all other churches for not agreeing with him on the date of Easter. After a rebuke from Irenaeus, he resumed this fellowship. | |||
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|Zephyrinus | |||
||199 | |||
||217 | |||
||Decreed that excommunicated sinners could be absolved through pennance. Hippolytus (who claimed to be a disciple of Irenaeus) officially broke with the Church of Rome under Zphyrinus, and is often called the first antipope. | |||
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|Callixtus | |||
||217 | |||
||222 | |||
||Established the practice of the absolution of all repented sins. Was similar to Irenaeus in his doctrine of the Godhead, and was rebuked by Hippolytus and Tertullian, who were both early Trinitarians, for his doctrine and morals. | |||
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|Urban 1 | |||
||222 | |||
||230 | |||
||None known | |||
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|Pontian | |||
||230 | |||
||235 | |||
||Died in exile with Hippolytus. | |||
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|Anterus | |||
||235 | |||
||236 | |||
||None known | |||
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|Fabian | |||
||236 | |||
||250 | |||
||Sent men to evangelize Gaul after the persecutions of Emperor Decius had reduced the Christian population (Gaul was the area where Irenaeus had ministered). | |||
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|Cornelius | |||
||250 | |||
||253 | |||
||Little known, Excommunicated Novation. | |||
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|Lucius 1 | |||
||253 | |||
||254 | |||
||Known for relaxed view on restoration of backsliders | |||
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|Stephen 1 | |||
||254 | |||
||257 | |||
||Declared that those baptised in splinter churches do not need rebaptism | |||
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|Sixtus II | |||
||257 | |||
||258 | |||
||Little known. | |||
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|Dionysius | |||
||259 | |||
||268 | |||
||Reorganized Roman Church, assisted church in Cappadocia, and demanded doctrine on Godhead from the church in Alexandria | |||
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|Felix I | |||
||269 | |||
||274 | |||
||Wrote a letter to Alexandrian church in support of the Trinity and Incarnation. | |||
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|Eutychian | |||
||275 | |||
||283 | |||
||Little known. | |||
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|Caius | |||
||283 | |||
||296 | |||
||Little known. | |||
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|Marcellinus | |||
||296 | |||
||304 | |||
||Recanted Christianity and sacrificed to idols at Emperor Diocletian's persecution, but later recanted and was martyred. | |||
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|Marcellus I | |||
||308 | |||
||309 | |||
||Required severe penance for those that backslid during Diocletian's persecution, and was ousted by Emperor Maxentius because of the resulting inter-christian feuds. | |||
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|Eusebius | |||
||309 | |||
||309 | |||
||Lasted as Bishop for one day. Was ousted by Empereor Maxentius for not stopping the inter-Christian riots by admitting the backslidden without pennance. | |||
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|Miltiades | |||
||310 | |||
||314 | |||
||Little known. | |||
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