The 3 African Catholic Popes

[rexxsimba]

@messiahette :

There have been three African Popes.

• the 14th pope, Victor I (circa 189-198 A.D.).
• the 32nd pope, Miltiades (311-314 A.D.).
• the 49th pope, Gelasius I (492-496 A.D.).

According to the sixth-century Liber Pontificalis, the earliest known record of the popes, Victor was from North Africa , while Miltiades and Gelasius likely were born in Rome to families of African origin.

Interestingly, Victor was the first pope to speak Latin because Christians in Rome were still using Greek in the liturgy.

St. Miltiades served as pope from July 2, 311, to January 10, 314.

Shortly after he became pope, the Church’s persecution under the Roman emperors ended with an edict of toleration and the ascension of a new Christian emperor, Constantine I.
Properties that had been taken from the Church were returned, and Constantine gave Pope Miltiades the Lateran Palace as his residence.

[Jack_Black]

For a minute there I thought I’d read Pope @anon27562249.

[Lenan1]

@rexxsimba

…rgy.
St. Miltiades served as pope from July 2, 311, to January 10, 314.
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Shortly after he became pope, the Church’s persecution under the Roman emperors ended with an edict of toleration and the ascension of a new Christian emperor, Constantine I.
Properties that had been taken from the Church were returned, and Constantine gave Pope Miltiades the Lateran Palace as his residence.

Appears to have been in very early days. And back then, popes used to marry, sometimes more than once or to more than one wife at a time.