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'''Saint Victor I''' (died c. 199 AD) was, according to ancient Christian tradition, the fourteenth bishop of Rome after Saint Peter, serving from approximately 189 to 199 AD, thus the fourteenth pope.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15408a.htm |title=Pope St. Victor I |publisher=New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> He is the first bishop of Rome known to have been of African origin and the first to have exercised significant authority beyond the city itself. | '''Pope Saint Victor I''' (died c. 199 AD) was, according to ancient Christian tradition, the fourteenth bishop of Rome after Saint Peter, serving from approximately 189 to 199 AD, thus the fourteenth pope.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15408a.htm |title=Pope St. Victor I |publisher=New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> He is the first bishop of Rome known to have been of African origin and the first to have exercised significant authority beyond the city itself. | ||
Historical evidence for Victor I is more substantial than for many earlier popes. Eusebius of Caesarea (Church History V.24) preserves a letter from Victor threatening to excommunicate the churches of Asia Minor over the Quartodeciman controversy (the date of Easter), marking the earliest documented attempt by a Roman bishop to impose uniformity of practice on distant churches.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/roman_curia/pontifical_committees/archeology/documents/rc_comm_archeo_02001010_vittore_en.html |title=Saint Victor I |publisher=Holy See |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> Irenaeus of Lyons intervened to urge moderation, and Victor apparently relented, though the episode demonstrates Rome’s growing sense of primacy. Victor also condemned the Adoptionist theologian Theodotus of Byzantium and is credited with switching the liturgical language of the Roman Church from Greek to Latin, a transition confirmed by the fact that his immediate predecessors wrote in Greek while his successors used Latin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Victor-I |title=Saint Victor I |publisher=Britannica |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> | Historical evidence for Victor I is more substantial than for many earlier popes. Eusebius of Caesarea (Church History V.24) preserves a letter from Victor threatening to excommunicate the churches of Asia Minor over the Quartodeciman controversy (the date of Easter), marking the earliest documented attempt by a Roman bishop to impose uniformity of practice on distant churches.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/roman_curia/pontifical_committees/archeology/documents/rc_comm_archeo_02001010_vittore_en.html |title=Saint Victor I |publisher=Holy See |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> Irenaeus of Lyons intervened to urge moderation, and Victor apparently relented, though the episode demonstrates Rome’s growing sense of primacy. Victor also condemned the Adoptionist theologian Theodotus of Byzantium and is credited with switching the liturgical language of the Roman Church from Greek to Latin, a transition confirmed by the fact that his immediate predecessors wrote in Greek while his successors used Latin.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Victor-I |title=Saint Victor I |publisher=Britannica |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> | ||