biography
pronunciation:
[hipolitus]
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| lived:
| (170–235)
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| biography:
| Christian leader and antipope in Rome. When Calixtus was elected pope (c.217) he headed a group of dissidents who consecrated him pope in opposition. The schism lasted till 235, when Hippolytus and the successor of Calixtus were both deported to work in the Roman mines in Sardinia, where they died as martyrs. He is generally believed to be the author of a Refutation of all Heresies in 10 books, discovered in 1842 in a 14th-c manuscript at Mt Athos. He also wrote a smaller work against heretics extant in a Latin translation. The so-called Canons of Hippolytus are more probably Graeco-Egyptian in origin. Feast day (W) 13 August, (E) 30 January. |
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