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Pope Pontian

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Pope Pontian

Pope Pontian (Latin: Pontianus; died October 235) was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 230 to 28 September 235. In 235, during the persecution of Christians in the reign of the Emperor Maximinus Thrax, Pontian was arrested and sent to the island of Sardinia. He abdicated to make the election of a new pope possible. Resigning on 28 September 235, he was the first pope to do so. This allowed an orderly transition in the Church of Rome and so ended a schism that had existed in the Church for eighteen years. Some accounts say he was beaten to death only weeks after his arrival on Sardinia. Pontian is venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

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Church
Catholic Church
Papacy began
21 July 230
Papacy ended
28 September 235
Predecessor
Urban I
Successor
Anterus
Born
Rome, Italy, Roman Empire
Died
October 235Sardinia, Sardinia and Corsica, Roman Empire
Feast day
mw- 13 August (Eastern Orthodox Church, Catholic Church 1969 calendar)19 November (Catholic Church 1960 calendar and prior)
Venerated in
Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church

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Preceded byUrban I
Preceded byUrban I
Titles of the Great Christian Church
Preceded byUrban I
Titles of the Great Christian Church
Bishop of Rome 230–235
Titles of the Great Christian Church
Succeeded byAnterus
Titles of the Great Christian Church
Preceded byUrban I
Bishop of Rome 230–235
Succeeded byAnterus

References

  1. Kirsch, Johann Peter (1911). "Pope St. Pontian" in The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company
  2. The Oxford Dictionary of Popes
    https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000kell
  3. Reading the Early Church Fathers: From the Didache to Nicaea
  4. My First Book of Saints
  5. G. W. Clarke, "Some Victims of the Persecution of Maximinus Thrax," Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 15, H
  6. Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2000), 45.
  7. McBrien, Lives of the Popes, 45.
  8. "Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome"
    http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdaug.htm
  9. Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), p. 146
  10. Catholic Encyclopedia.
  11. Le chiese di Roma: storie, leggende e curiosità degli edifici sacri della Città Eterna, dai templi pagani alle grandi basiliche, dai conventi ai monasteri ai luoghi di culto in periferia
    https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr8rAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Ponziano%22+%22+
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