Pope Stephen I

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

Pope254–257

Who

Held, against Cyprian, that baptism given by heretics was valid and need not be repeated, the first known appeal of a pope to his succession from Peter.

Sources

Eusebius, Church History
Liber Pontificalis
Annuario Pontificio

Lineage

In the succession →

See of Rome, 254–257.

Succeeded: Pope Lucius I253–254
See of Rome, 254–257
Succeeded by: Pope Sixtus II257–258
See of Rome, 257–258

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