Pope Fabian
Pope and bishop of Rome from 236 to 250
- Fame59.8
- Momentum0.3
- Religious Figures rank#100
Source-basedStable
- Fame59.8
- Momentum0.3
- Religious Figures rank#100
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Lived 200–250, aged 50Italy
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Updated 2026-06-08
A dove supposedly landed on his head during the papal election of 236, and that was enough to make a layman pope for fourteen years.
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Fabian became bishop of Rome on 10 January 236, succeeding Anterus in what tradition calls an upset marked by the Holy Spirit's choice. Most of his papacy unfolded under tolerant emperors: he healed the lingering schism between the congregations of Pontian and Hippolytus, reorganized Rome into diaconates, and set scribes to work recording the deaths of martyrs. He dispatched seven missionaries to Gaul, though the claim that he baptized Emperor Philip the Arab remains doubtful. When Decius began his persecution in 250, Fabian died a martyr on 20 January, venerated now by both Catholic and Ortho…
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