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...

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...

bishop of Rome. The Catholic Church lists him as the fourth pope. The Liber Pontificalis states that Clement died in Greece in the third year of Emperor Trajan's...

Middle Ages (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-13. Liber Pontificalis (first ed., 500s; it has papal biographies up to Pius II, d. 1464)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

the Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis (LPR), an account of the occupants of his native church, compiled on the model of the Liber Pontificalis, a...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

considered as the eighth Bishop of Rome in succession after Peter. The Liber Pontificalis mentions that he had been an anchorite (or hermit) monk prior to assuming...

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...

martyrdom under the Roman emperor Trajan or Hadrian. According to the Liber Pontificalis, it was Alexander I who inserted the narration of the Last Supper...

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...

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transported to Rome and buried in the Basilica of St. Peter. The Liber Pontificalis credits John with making repairs to the cemetery of the martyrs Nereus...

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...

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

although most sources describe them as Saracens. According to the Liber Pontificalis and the Chronicle of Monte Cassino, the raiders were Saracens from...

Little information on Caius is available except that given by the Liber Pontificalis, which relies on a legendary account of the martyrdom of Susanna of...

notaries at present are the officials of the Roman and episcopal curiae. Liber Pontificalis attributes the seven regional notaries of the Church in Rome, one...