Pope Pontian

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Pope230–235

Who

Deported to Sardinia with Hippolytus under Maximinus and resigned the see there, the first pope to do so; both died in the mines and were buried together at Rome.

Sources

Eusebius, Church History
Liber Pontificalis
Annuario Pontificio

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In the succession →

See of Rome, 230–235.

Succeeded: Pope Urban I222–230
See of Rome, 230–235
Succeeded by: Pope Anterus235–236
See of Rome, 235–236

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