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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.
Name Papacy began Notes 1 Pope Adeodatus I: 615 [2] 2 Pope Adrian III: 884 Canonised in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII [3] 3 Pope Agapetus I: 535 4 Pope Agatho: 678 5 Pope Alexander I: 107 6 Pope Anacletus: 79 7 Pope Anastasius I: 399 8 Pope Anicetus: 157 9 Pope Anterus: 235 10 Pope Benedict II: 684 11 Pope Boniface I: 418 12 Pope Boniface IV: 608 13 ...
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)
An early variant name was Kestler. [5] An act of Georgia General Assembly officially changed the name to Damascus in 1914. [6] The present name is a transfer from nearby Old Damascus, which it was named for Damascus, Syria. Old Damascus would be bypassed when a new railroad line was being built through the area. [5]
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
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 ...
A papal name or pontificial name is the regnal name taken by a pope. Both the head of the Catholic Church, usually known as the pope, and the pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (Coptic pope) choose papal names. As of 2013, Pope Francis is the Catholic pope, and Tawadros II or Theodoros II is the Coptic pope.