Pope Caius
Pope of the Catholic Church from 283 to 296
- Fame58.1
- Momentum0.0
- Religious Figures rank#155
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Updated 2026-06-09
A third-century bishop of Rome whose papacy left almost no verifiable record — what survives comes from a ninth-century text that leans on legend more than documentation.
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Caius held the bishopric of Rome from 17 December 283 until his death on 22 April 296. The Liber Pontificalis, compiled centuries later, drew on a legendary martyrdom account to sketch his story: he supposedly baptized converts brought in by Tiburtius and Castulus, took shelter in the catacombs, and died a martyr. Beyond that framework, nothing concrete survives. He remains a name in the papal succession, a figure whose actual life dissolved into the distance between event and record.
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