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Three Africans have already been popes and all three of them have been canonized as saints. The earliest known African to become pope was St. Victor, who was born and raised in Africa. By coincidence, he was chosen pope in A.D. 186, in the reign of the African emperor, Septimus Severus. The second African pope was St. Miltiades, who was pope for only four years, from 311 to 314. St. Miltiades served in a colorful period, when the Emperor Constantine seized power in the Western Empire in A.D. 311 and decreed imperial tolerance for all Christians. The third African pope was St. Gelasius, who was born of African parents, but it is not clear where he was actually born, in Africa or the city of Rome. We know he was ordained to the clergy in the city of Rome at a fairly young age, and was elected to the papacy in A.D. 492, serving until A.D. 496. This was a desperate period in Roman history, when the central civil government had broken down in the wake of the barbarian invasions.
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PROFESSING FAITH: Catholic Church had three African popes in early centuries
“North Africa was the Bible belt of early Christianity,” said Christopher Bellitto, a church historian at Kean University in New Jersey. “Carthage was the buckle,” he added, referring to the city located in modern-day Tunisia.
So it should be no surprise that three early popes hailed from that region: the 14th pope, Victor I (circa 189-198 A.D.); the 32nd pope, Miltiades (311-314 A.D.); and the 49th pope, Gelasius I (492-496 A.D.).
According to the sixth-century
Liber Pontificalis, the earliest known record of the popes, Victor was from North Africa, while Miltiades and Gelasius likely were born in Rome to families of African origin.
Interestingly, Victor was the first pope to speak Latin because Christians in Rome were still using Greek in the liturgy. As
one historian has written, it was “remarkable … that Latin should have won recognition as the language of African Christianity from the outset, while the Roman church was still using Greek.”
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Has there ever been a black or African pope?