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Title: The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Catholic Church Theology Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York, R. Appleton
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
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the other. In theaforesaid catalogue the papal succession is: Petrus,Linus, Clemens, Cletus, Anacletus. This catalogue,however, is the only authority previous to the sixthcentury (Liber Pontificalis) for distinguishing twopopes under the names of CTetus and Anacletus. TheCarmen adv. Maroionem is of the latter half of thefourth century, and its papal list probably depends onthe Liberian Catalogue. The Martyrologium Hiero-nymianum (q. v.) mentions both Aninclitus andClitus (23 and 31 December), but on each occasionthese names are found in a list of popes; hence the daysmentioned cannot be looked on as specially conse-crated to these two persons. Apart from these lists,all other ancient papal lists, from the second to thefourth century, give as follows the immediate succes-sion of St. Peter: Aii-os, A^-^tkXijtos, K\^fir,s (LinusAnencletus, Clemens), and this succession is certainlythe nght one. It is that found in St. Irenaeus and inthe chronicles of the second and third centuries. Both
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CLEVELAND 55 CLEVELAND Africa and the Orient adhered faithfully to this list,which is also given in the very ancient Roman Canon ofthe ^lass, except that in the latter Cletus is the form used,and the same occurs in St. Epiphanius, St. Jerome,Rufinus, and in many fifth- and sixth-century lists.This second successor of St. Peter governed theRoman Church from about 76 to about 88. TheLiber Pontificalis says that his father was Emeli-anus and that Cletus was a Roman by birth, and be-longed to the quarter known as the Vicus Putrid. Italso tells us that he ordained twenty-five priests, andwas buried in Vaticano near the body of St. Peter.There is historical evidence for only the last of thesestatements. The feast of St. Cletus falls, with that of St.Marcellinus, on 26 April; this date is already assignedto it in the first edition of the Liber Pontificalis-(See Clement I, Saint, Pope.) LiGHTFOOT. Apostolic Fathers. Pt. I: St. Clement of Rome(2nd ed., London. 1890), 201-345; Duchesne, Liber P

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