Papa Linus

Papa Linus alikuwa Papa kuanzia takriban 68 hadi kifo chake takriban 79[1]. Alitokea mkoa wa Toscana, Italia[2].

Papa Linus.

Alimfuata Papa wa kwanza[3], Mtume Petro[4][5][6][7][8][9], akafuatwa na Papa Anacletus.

Ndiye aliyetajwa na Mtume Paulo katika Waraka wa pili kwa Timotheo, 4:21[10] kwamba alikuwa naye mwishoni mwa maisha yake[11].

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa kama mtakatifu na kutajwa katika Kanuni ya Kirumi.

Sikukuu yake ni tarehe 23 Septemba[12].

Tazama pia

Tanbihi

Marejeo

  • Louise Ropes Loomis, The Book of Popes (Liber Pontificalis). Merchantville, NJ: Evolution Publishing. ISBN 1-889758-86-8 (Reprint of the 1916 edition. Stops with Pope Pelagius, 579–590. English translation with scholarly footnotes, and illustrations).
  • Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX. New York 1910, Robert Appleton Company. * Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers; St. Clement of Rome, I (London, 1890), uk. 201 n.k.;
  • Adolf von Harnack, Geschichte der Altchristlichen Literatur, II: Die Chronologie I (Leipzig, 1897), uk. 70.
  • Claudio Rendina, I Papi. Storia e segreti, Newton & Compton, Roma, 1983.

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