Pape Linus
Pape Saunt Linus | |
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Installed | c. 67 |
Term endit | c. 76 |
Predecessor | Peter |
Successor | Anacletus |
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Born | Unkent Volterra, Tuscany, Italy, Roman Empire |
Deed | c. 76 Roum, Italy, Roman Empire |
Saunthuid | |
Feast day | 23 September |
Veneratit in | Anglicanism Eastern Orthodoxy Lutheranism Oriental Orthodoxy Roman Catholicism |
Pape Linus (Italian: Lino; died c. 76) wis the heid o the Catholic Kirk frae c. 67 tae his daith c. 76. Accordin tae several early soorces, he wis the seicont bishop o Roum efter Saunt Peter, makin him the seicont pape. Accordin tae ither early soorces, Pape Clement I wis the pape efter Peter. Linus an St. Clement are the anly persons specifically mentioned in the New Testament, ither than Peter, considered bi the Catholic Kirk tae hae held the poseetion o pape.[1]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Kirsch, Johann Peter (1910). "Pope St. Linus" in The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company.