The Liber Pontificalis (Latin for 'pontifical book' or Book of the Popes) is a book of biographies of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The...

bishop of Rome and Linus as his successor in the same office. The Liber Pontificalis also enumerated Linus as the second bishop of Rome after Peter, and...

bishop of Rome. The Catholic Church lists him as the fourth pope. The Liber Pontificalis states that Clement died in Greece in the third year of Emperor Trajan's...

which is now generally considered to be a forgery. According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was a Greek born in Nicopolis in Epirus, Greece. His contemporary...

family from Rome; his father, John, is identified as a consul in the Liber pontificalis, having received that title from the emperor in Constantinople. According...

Middle Ages (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-13. Liber Pontificalis (first ed., 500s; it has papal biographies up to Pius II, d. 1464)...

Apollinaris in the interests of his sect. The notice about Felix in the Liber Pontificalis ascribes to him a decree that Masses should be celebrated on the tombs...

October 336. Little is known of Mark's early life. According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was a Roman, and his father's name was Priscus. Mark succeeded...

Smyrna to Rome to discuss the Easter controversy. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Anicetus was a Syrian from the city of Emesa (modern-day Homs). According...

be readmitted to communion without doing penance. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Marcellus divided the territorial administration of the church into...