Hyginus
Pope and Bishop of Rome from c.138 to c.142
d. 142
9th Bishop of Rome (Pope) · 138–140
Offices
- Bishop of Rome (Pope) № 9 · 138 – 140
Pope Hyginus was the bishop of Rome from c. 138 to his death in c. 142. Tradition holds that during his papacy he determined the various prerogatives of the clergy and defined the grades of the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Related people
- Telesphorus succeeded · traditional
- Pius I preceded · traditional
Commemorated
Places
- St. Peter's Basilica burial
- Rome ministry
- Athens birth
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Ecclesiastical History 1 claim — HE 4.10
- Liber Pontificalis 1 claim — Liber Pontificalis, the life of Hyginus
- Le Liber pontificalis: texte, introduction et commentaire 1 claim — Liber pontificalis I, commentary on the early lives