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The third pope to bear the same name as his immediate predecessor. Last pope to have been born outside Europe until the election of Francis in 2013. 91 3 December 741 – 22 March 752 (10 years, 110 days) St Zachary ZACHARIAS: Zacharias Sancta Severina, Calabria, Eastern Roman Empire (Eastern) Roman citizen. Was of Greek ethnicity. Feast day 15 ...
Pope Damasus I (/ ˈ d æ m ə s ə s /; c. 305 – 11 December 384), also known as Damasus of Rome, [1] was the bishop of Rome from October 366 to his death in 384. It is claimed that he presided over the Council of Rome of 382 that determined the canon or official list of sacred scripture.
There have been 266 popes: 217 from Italy (Including Pope Paul I, II, III, IV, V, VI, Pope Pius I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII); 16 from France (Pope Sylvester II, Pope Stephen IX, Pope Nicholas II, Pope Urban II, Pope Callistus II, Pope Urban IV, Pope Clement IV, Pope Innocent V, Pope Martin IV, Pope Clement V, Pope John XXII, Pope Benedict XII, Pope Clement VI, Pope ...
None of this, however, had much in particular to do with the pope, who did not even attend the council; in fact, the first bishop of Rome to be contemporaneously referred to as Pope is Damasus I (366–84). [11] Moreover, between 324 and 330, Constantine moved the capital of the Roman empire from Rome to Byzantium, a former Greek city on the ...
The most famous composer of poetical epitaphs in Christian antiquity was Pope Damasus I (366–384), mentioned above. He repaired the neglected tombs of the martyrs and the graves of distinguished persons who had lived before the Constantinian epoch, and adorned these burial places with metrical epitaphs in a peculiarly beautiful lettering ...
The Texas Catholic Church comprises 15 Latin Church dioceses and one personal ordinariate led by a bishop. The 15 Latin dioceses are divided into two ecclesiastical provinces . Each province has a metropolitan archdiocese led by an archbishop , and six, Galveston-Houston, or seven, San Antonio, suffragan dioceses.
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Damasus can refer to: Pope Damasus I (330–384) or St. Damasus; Pope Damasus II (died 1048) Damasus Scombrus, Greek orator from Tralles; Damasus, a genus of leaf ...