Pope Anicetus
Pius I | |
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| Successor | Soter |
| Personal details | |
| Born | late 1st century |
| Died | April 168 Rome, Roman Empire |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 20 April[1] (West) 17 April[2] (East) |
| Attributes | Papal tiara, palm branch |
Pope Anicetus (
Polycarp of Smyrna to Rome to discuss the Easter controversy
.
Biography
According to the Emesa (modern-day Homs).[4]
According to
Pesach (or Passover) regardless of which day of the week upon this date fell, while the Roman Church celebrated Easter on Sunday—the weekday of Jesus's resurrection. The two did not agree on a common date, but Anicetus conceded to Polycarp and the Church of Smyrna the ability to retain the date to which they were accustomed. The controversy was to grow heated in the following centuries.[5]
The Christian historian
Roman See.[5]
Anicetus actively opposed the
Gnostics and Marcionism.[citation needed] The Liber Pontificalis records that Anicetus decreed that priests are not allowed to have long hair (perhaps because the Gnostics wore long hair).[4]
According to church tradition, Anicetus suffered
feast day.[1] Before 1970, the date chosen was 17 April.[6] The Liber Pontificalis states he was buried in the cemetery of Callistus.[4]
See also
- List of popes
- Quartodeciman
References
- ^ ISBN 88-209-7210-7)
- ^ (in Greek) Άγιος Ανίκητος ο Ιερομάρτυρας πάπας Ρώμης Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής
- ^ Campbell, Thomas (1907). "Pope St. Anicetus" in The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ OL 8283722M.
- ^ a b Irenaeus, cited in Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, 5.24; translated by G.A. Williamson, Eusebius: History of the Church (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965), pp. 232f
- ^ a b Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), p. 120
External links
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- Campbell, Thomas Joseph (1907). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Duff, Eamon. Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes, Yale University Press, 2001, p. 13. ISBN 0-300-09165-6
- Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. Chronicle of the Popes: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the Present, Thames & Hudson, 2002, p. 19. ISBN 0-500-01798-0.
- "Anicetus" in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
- Collected works of Migne Patrologia Latina
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