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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.
Pope Damasus I (/ ˈ d æ m ə s ə s /; c. 305 – 11 December 384), also known as Damasus of Rome, 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 Council of Rome was a synod which took place in Rome in AD 382, under the leadership of Pope Damasus I, the then-bishop of Rome.The only surviving conciliar pronouncement may be the Decretum Gelasianum that contains a canon of Scripture, which was issued by the Council of Rome under Pope Damasus in 382, and which is identical with the list given at the Council of Trent.
It is also often known as dei Santi Marco e Marcelliano e di papa Damaso (of Saints Mark and Marcellian and of Pope Damasus). Pope Caius (296) was buried alongside Marcus and Marcellianus in an underground basilica, with the site also having a second semi-underground basilica with the tomb Damasus had chosen for himself, his mother Laurentia ...
It is on five levels, though the only accessible one is the middle one. The oldest part is that around the underground basilica, built by pope Vigilius around the tomb of Hippolytus. A crypt built by Damasus I in the second half of the 4th century was already on the same site.
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
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 ...
Pope Damasus II (/ ˈ d æ m ə s ə s /; died 9 August 1048, born Poppo de' Curagnoni [1]) was the Bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 17 July 1048 to his death on 9 August that same year. He was the second of the German pontiffs nominated by Emperor Henry III.