Liberius
Head of the Catholic Church from 352 to 366
b. c. 310 · d. 24 Sep 366
36th Bishop of Rome (Pope) · 17 May 352–24 Sep 366
Offices
- Bishop of Rome (Pope) № 36 · 17 May 352 – 24 Sep 366
Pope Liberius was the bishop of Rome from 17 May 352 until his death on 24 September 366. According to the Catalogus Liberianus, he was consecrated on 22 May as the successor to Julius I. He is not mentioned as a saint in the Roman Martyrology, making him the earliest pontiff not to be venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and, along with Anastasius II, one of only two popes to be omitted from Catholic sainthood in the first 500 years of church history.
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Places
- Rome ministry
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Chronograph of 354 (the Calendar of Filocalus) 1 claim — Liberian Catalogue (part 13)
- Liber Pontificalis 1 claim — Liber Pontificalis, the life of Liberius
Glosses
- The earliest 25 December An almanac made at Rome in 354 for a Christian named Valentinus carries, among the days of the martyrs, one line that is not a martyr: VIII kal. Ian. natus Christus in Betleem Iudeae — the eighth day before the kalends…
- The years before the list Every early bishop of Rome on this site carries a span - Linus 67 to 79, Anacletus 79 to 92 - and those numbers are younger than the men. The Liber Pontificalis gives each of them a reign to the day, so many years, so…