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Pope Victor I (died 199) was a bishop of , and hence a pope, in the late second century. The dates of his Pope tenure are uncertain, but one source states he became Victor I pope in 189 and gives the year of his death as 199.[1] He was the first bishop of Rome born in the Roman Province of —probably in (or ). He was later considered a saint. His feast day is celebrated on 28 July as "St Victor I, Pope and ".[2]

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Papacy began 189 Biography Papacy ended 199 Predecessor Eleuterus The primary sources vary over the dates assigned to Victor’s episcopate, but indicate it included the last Successor Zephyrinus decade of the second century. puts his Personal details accession in the tenth year of (i.e. AD 189), which is accepted by Lipsius as the correct date. Birth name Victor ’s version of the Chronicle puts his accession in Born date unknown the reign of , or the first year of Septimius Roman Africa Severus (i.e. 193), while the Armenian version puts it in Died 199 the seventh year of Commodus (186). The dates his accession to the consulate of Rome, Commodus and Glabrio (i.e. 186), while the Liberian Sainthood Catalogue, a surviving copy of the source the Liber Feast day 28 July Pontificalis drew its information for its chronology, is Other named Victor damaged at this point[3] Concerning the duration of his episcopate, Eusebius, in his History, does not state directly the duration of his episcopate, but the Armenian version of Eusebius' Chronicle gives it as twelve years. The Liberian Catalogue gives his episcopate a length of nine years two months and ten days, while the Liber Pontificalis states it was ten years and the same number of months and days; the Felician Catalogue something over ten. Finally, Eusebius in his History (5.28) states Zephyrinus succeeded him

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pope_Victor_I&printable=yes 1/3 7/1/2015 Pope Victor I ­ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "about the ninth year of Severus", (201), while the Liber Pontificalis dates it to the consulate of Laternus and Rufinus (197). Lipsius, considering Victor in connection with his successors, concludes that he held office between nine and ten years, and therefore gives as his dates 189–198 or 199.

According to an anonymous writer quoted by Eusebius, Victor excommunicated Theodotus of Byzantium for teaching that Christ was a mere man.[4] However, he is best known for his role in the Quartodeciman controversy. to his elevation, a difference in dating the celebration of the Christian / between Rome and the bishops of Asia Minor had been tolerated by both the Roman and Eastern churches. The churches in Asia Minor celebrated it on the 14th of the Jewish month of Nisan, the day before Jewish Passover, regardless of what day of the week it fell on, as the Crucifixion had occurred on the Friday before Passover, justifying this as the custom they had learned from the apostles; for this the Latins called them Quartodecimans. Synods were held on the subject in various parts—in Palestine under Theophilus of Caesarea and Narcissus of Jerusalem, in Pontus under Palmas, in Gaul under , in Corinth under its bishop, Bachillus, at Osrhoene in Mesopotamia, and elsewhere—all of which disapproved of this practice and consequently issued by synodical letters declaring that "on the Lord's Day only the mystery of the resurrection of the Lord from the dead was accomplished, and that on that day only we keep the close of the paschal fast" (Eusebius H. E. v. 23). Despite this disapproval, the general feeling was that this divergent tradition was not sufficient grounds for . Victor alone was intolerant of this difference, and severed ties with these ancient churches, whose bishops included such luminaries as Polycrates of ;[5] in response he was rebuked by Irenaeus and others, according to Eusebius. See also

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1. Kirsch, Johann Peter (1912). "Pope St. Victor I" in The . Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 2. See the of 1954 3. Raymond D. Davis, The book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis) (Liverpool: University Press, 1989), pp. 6, 94. 4. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine, 5.28 (http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.x.xxix.html) 5. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine,5.24 (http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.x.xxv.html) External links

"Pope St. Victor I" Wikimedia Commons has (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15408a.htm). Catholic media related to Pope Victor Encyclopedia. 1913. I. San Vittore I Papa e martire ­ 28 luglio (http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90137)

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Catholic Church titles Bishop of Rome Preceded by Succeeded by Pope Eleuterus Zephyrinus 189–199

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