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Timon the Deacon. 33–100 (circa) 30 December / 28 July [ 502 ] / 4 January [ 42 ] Apostle of the Seventy, one of the seven Deacons, Bishop of Bosra, Hieromartyr [ 714 ] Timothy of Ephesus. 93. 22 January / 4 January [ 42 ] Apostle of the Seventy, Bishop of Ephesus, Hieromartyr [ 715 ] Timothy of Prusa.
N/A. Bartholomew (Greek: Βαρθολομαῖος, Bartholomaĩos; Turkish: Bartholomeos; born 29 February 1940) is the 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, since 2 November 1991. [1] In accordance with his title, he is regarded as the primus inter pares (first among equals) in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and as a spiritual leader of the ...
Pope John XXIII [5] 27 April 2014 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City: 5. Pope John Paul II [5] 6. Kuriakose Elias Chavara [6] 23 November 2014 7. Nicola Saggio [6] 8. Euphrasia Eluvathingal [6] 9. Giovanni Antonio Farina [6] 10. Ludovico of Casoria [6] 11. Amato Ronconi [6]
Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as well as the third-longest-serving pope in history after Pius IX and St. Peter. John Paul II attempted to improve the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the spirit of ecumenism, holding atheism as the
All saints bear this title (e.g. St. Seraphim of Sarov) Theologian: Has classical meaning, but only three saints are given the appellation Theologian, due to their writings introducing new theological doctrines: St. John the Theologian, [49] St. Gregory the Theologian, [50] and St. Symeon the New Theologian.
The church was also called the titulus Pammachii after Byzantius's son, the pious friend of St. Jerome. [1] In the ancient apartments on the ground-floor of the house of Byzantius, which were still retained under the basilica, the tomb of two Roman martyrs, John and Paul, was the object of veneration as early as the fifth century. [1]
Karol Józef Wojtyła (junior) was born on 18 May 1920 in Wadowice near the city of Kraków in southern Poland, the youngest of three children. [1] His father was Karol Józef Wojtyła (senior), born on 18 July 1879 in Lipnik (now part of Bielsko-Biała). He was a non-commissioned officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army and a captain in the Polish ...