Saturday, February 24, 2018

black popes


 The Book of Pontiffs  declares there have been three black popes:
 Pope St. Victor I ......186-197 A.D. as the 15th Pope. 
Pope St. Militiades....311-314 A.D. as the 32nd or 37th Pope
Pope Saint Gelasius I.....492 until his death in 496, as the 49th Pope

Victor, an African by birth, governed the Church in the time of the Emperor Severus.

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