The Roman schism of Hippolytus

Jurisdictional · 217 — unsettled · local

Rome had two bishops for eighteen years, over the reception of penitents and the person of Christ. Both of them died in the mines of Sardinia and both are venerated.

How it ended. Ended by the exile that killed them; the reconciliation is remembered rather than recorded.

How it ran

  1. 217 — The Roman schism of Hippolytus begins (where it began). Rome has two bishops.

After Refutation of All Heresies (Philosophumena) · Hippolytus, Refutation 9.11.