Pope Liberius
Head of the Catholic Church from 352 to 366 · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 310 to 366 · aged 56
Pope Liberius is read about 203 times a day, in 75 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?The first pope not venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church - a break in the pattern after centuries of automatic sanctity, and still one of only two omissions in the first five hundred years.
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About this person
Liberius became bishop of Rome on 17 May 352, consecrated five days later as successor to Julius I. His fourteen-year papacy unfolded during the fourth century's doctrinal storms, and whatever happened in those years left him off the Roman Martyrology when it was compiled - the earliest pontiff to miss the roll. Only one other pope in that half-millennium, Anastasius II, shares the distinction. The Greek Menology, Eastern Christianity's measure of sainthood, did record him. He died on 24 September 366, his legacy a footnote about absence rather than act.
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