Pope Mark
4th-century pope
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ItalyHe held the papacy for less than nine months in 336, yet Pope Mark may have launched two of the early Church's most enduring record-keeping traditions and secured Ostia's bishop as the consecrator of future popes.
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Mark was a Roman, son of Priscus, who succeeded Sylvester I on 18 January 336. Evidence suggests the Depositio episcoporum and Depositio martyrum — early lists of bishops and martyrs — were begun under his watch. He issued a constitution giving the bishop of Ostia the pallium and the authority to consecrate newly elected popes, formalizing a ritual that would last centuries. He founded the Basilica of San Marco in Rome and a cemetery church over the Catacomb of Balbina on land donated by Constantine. Mark died of natural causes on 7 October 336, just under nine months into his papacy, and was…
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