Liberius
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Liberius was the Pope of the Catholic Church from 352 to 366, making him one of the early leaders of Christianity during a pivotal period in the Church's history. His papacy is historically significant because it occurred during major theological controversies about the nature of Jesus Christ that shaped Christian doctrine for centuries to come.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1646
- Died
- 1719
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Controversiarum scholastico-polemico-historico-criticarum
- Controversiarum scholastico-polemico-historico-criticarum tomus septimus ex posthumis, complectens tractatum de consiliis evangelicis, seu de statu perfectionis novae legis, atque defensionem status religiosi quoad substantiam in lege veteri, seu cripte : adversus Franciscum Galiani Spuchae
- Controversiarum scholastico-polemico-historico-criticarum tomus tertius ex postumis, complectens tractatus de sacramentis in genere, [de] Baptismo, [de] Confirmatione, de ven. Eucharistia
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Key dates
- Born
- 310
- Died
- 24 September 366
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Pope Liberius (310 – 24 September 366) was the bishop of Rome from 17 May 352 until his death on 24 September 366. According to the Catalogus Liberianus, he was consecrated on 22 May as the successor to Julius I. He is not mentioned as a saint in the Roman Martyrology, making him the earliest pontiff not to be venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and, along with Anastasius II, one of only two popes to be omitted from Catholic sainthood in the first 500 years of church history.
Liberius is mentioned in the Greek Menology, the Eastern equivalent to the martyrologies of the Western Church and a measure of sainthood prior to the institution of the formal Western processes of canonization.