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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.
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 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 ...
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It was to Pope Damasus I (366–384) that Jerome appealed in 376, to settle a dispute as to who, among three rival claimants, was the legitimate Patriarch of Antioch. [ 47 ] In the strictest sense of the word, " decretal " means a papal rescript ( rescriptum ), an answer of the pope when he has been appealed to or his advice has been sought on ...
6 from Germany (Pope Gregory V, Pope Clement II, Pope Damasus II, Pope Leo IX, Pope Victor II, and Pope Benedict XVI) 5 from the Byzantine Empire in modern-day Syria (Pope Anicetus, Pope John V, Pope Sisinnius, Pope Constantine, and Pope Gregory III) 4 from Greece (Pope Anacletus, Pope Hyginus, Pope Eleutherius, and Pope Sixtus II)
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 beetle in the subfamily Eumolpinae; Damasus (canonist) (12th–13th centuries); see Bartholomew of Brescia; Damasus (mythology), a soldier on the Trojan side in the Trojan War
In 382 Jerome accompanied one of the claimants, Paulinus II of Antioch, to Rome, where Pope Damasus I (366-384) had convened a council to determine a canonical list of scripture. [25] (Jerome then served as confidential secretary to the Pope for the next three years before heading to Bethlehem.) [26]