Pope Anicetus
Bishop of Rome from c. 157 to 168 · Religious Figures · Lived 100 to 166 · aged 66
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Something wrong?He ran the early church when it was still hunted, hosted a saint to argue about Easter's date, and spent his papacy beating back heresies that wanted to rewrite Christianity before the ink dried.
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About this person
Anicetus became bishop of Rome around 157, though some records place it as early as 153. His tenure was consumed by doctrinal firefighting: he actively opposed Gnosticism and Marcionism, rival interpretations threatening to fracture the young faith. In what became a famous episode of early church diplomacy, he welcomed Polycarp of Smyrna to Rome to hash out the Easter controversy - a calendar dispute that wouldn't be settled for generations. He died in April 168, having held the line during one of Christianity's most vulnerable centuries.
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