The Liber Pontificalis (Latin for 'pontifical book' or Book of the Popes) is a book of biographies of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The...

bishop of Rome and Linus as his successor in the same office. The Liber Pontificalis also enumerated Linus as the second bishop of Rome after Peter, and...

executed by being tied to an anchor and thrown into the sea. The Liber Pontificalis states that Clement died in Greece in the third year of Trajan's reign...

which is now generally considered to be a forgery. According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was a Greek born in Nicopolis in Epirus, Greece. His contemporary...

family from Rome; his father, John, is identified as a consul in the Liber pontificalis, having received that title from the emperor in Constantinople. According...

Smyrna to Rome to discuss the Easter controversy. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Anicetus was a Syrian from the city of Emesa (modern-day Homs). According...

Hereford, UK: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: 5–21. ISSN 1479-5078. Liber Pontificalis (first ed., 500s; it has papal biographies up to Pius II, d. 1464)...

October 336. Little is known of Mark's early life. According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was a Roman, and his father's name was Priscus. Mark succeeded...

be readmitted to communion without doing penance. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Marcellus divided the territorial administration of the church into...

Armenian version puts it in the seventh year of Commodus (186). The Liber Pontificalis dates his accession to the consulate of Commodus and Glabrio (i.e...

known that he was of North African descent and, according to the Liber Pontificalis, compiled from the 5th century onwards, a Roman citizen. Miltiades...

Apollinaris in the interests of his sect. The notice about Felix in the Liber Pontificalis ascribes to him a decree that Masses should be celebrated on the tombs...

Sede Vacante reported in the Liber Pontificalis. See Duchesne, pp. 247-248. Duchesne, Louis (1886). Le Liber pontificalis (in Latin). Vol. Tome premier...

reign period, marking the end of the Apostolic Age. According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was a Greek by birth, fathered by a Jew named Judah from the city...

Greek ancestry and born in Terranova da Sibari, Calabria, Italy. The Liber Pontificalis mentions that he had been an anchorite (or hermit) monk prior to assuming...

where he is spoken of as "Celestine the Deacon". According to the Liber Pontificalis, the start of his papacy was 3 November. However, Tillemont places...

determined with any degree of exactitude today. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Hyginus was a Greek by birth. Irenaeus says that the gnostic Valentinus...

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earliest mention in an authentic historical authority occurs in the Liber Pontificalis, where the biography of Pope Simplicius (468–483) states that this...

were in no position to offer much opposition to it. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Leo was "of the Roman nation, the son of Atzuppius" (natione romanus...

25 years." "Liber Pontificalis". www.thelatinlibrary.com. Loomis, Louise Ropes (2006) [1917]. The Book of the Popes (Liber Pontificalis). Arx Publishing...

and "had passed over the entire diaconate as untrustworthy". The Liber Pontificalis alleges that Silverius had purchased his elevation from King Theodahad...

at his death the clergy were very much divided. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Zosimus was a Greek and his father's name was Abramius. Historian...

survive about him or his achievements beyond what is recorded in the Liber Pontificalis. Donus was the son of a Roman named Maurice. He became pope on 2 November...

resulted from an error in the textual transmission of his entry in the Liber Pontificalis. This entry originally specified not only the duration of his pontificate...

the Liber pontificalis, Lando was born in the Sabina (Papal States), and his father was a wealthy Lombard count named Taino from Fornovo. The Liber also...

Hormisdas was apparently not tainted." The account of his tenure in the Liber Pontificalis, as well as the overwhelming bulk of his surviving correspondence...

nothing more is known of him. Even the date of his reign is uncertain. Liber Pontificalis gives a reign of 8 years and 11 months, from 275 to 283. Eusebius...

some confusion regarding where Gelasius was born: according to the Liber Pontificalis he was born in Africa ("natione Afer"), while in a letter addressed...

by the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Fabian was a noble Roman by birth, and his father's name was Fabius...