Skip to content
Vinony
English
EnglishBahasa IndonesiaDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoNederlandsPolskiPortuguêsSvenskaTiếng ViệtTürkçeРусскийالعربيةفارسیไทย한국어中文日本語
Liberius

File:Patrician_John_Reveals_his_Dream_to_Pope_Liberius.png · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ102105· pop 81· linked from 389 articles

Liberius

Sign in to save

Also known as Pope Liberius

Head of the Catholic Church from 352 to 366

OverviewAI-generated

Liberius was a male human born in Rome in 310 during the Roman Empire. He served as a Catholic priest, writer, and Pope. His professional activities were centered in Rome, where he also died on September 24, 366. He spoke, wrote, and signed in Latin.

He is recognized within the Catholic Church as a saint, with a feast day observed on August 27. His life and role are documented in several historical references, including the Nordisk familjebok, Pauly–Wissowa, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. He is also listed in the Popes collection.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Place of birth
Rome
Place of death
Rome
Occupation
writer
Position held
Pope
Languages spoken
Latin
Religion
Catholic Church
Image
Matthias Grünewald - Establishment of the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (detail) - WGA10780.jpg
Work location
Rome
Show 7 more facts
Commons category
Liberius
date of birth
0310-00-00
date of death
0366-09-24
described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
canonization status
Catholic saint
time period
Roman Empire
feast day
August 27
Sources (3)

via Wikidata · CC0

~9 min read

Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liberius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (2)

Available in 75 languages

Show 56 more

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0