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Sylvester was pope from 31 January 314 to 31 December 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. He filled the See of Rome at a very important era in the history of the Catholic Church, but very little is known of him. The accounts of the papacy of Pope Sylvester I preserved in the Liber Pontificalis (7th or 8th century) are little else than a record of the gifts said to have been conferred on the Church by Emperor Constantine I, but it does say that he was the son of a Roman named Rufinus.

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  • Pope Sylvester I
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  • Sylvester was pope from 31 January 314 to 31 December 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. He filled the See of Rome at a very important era in the history of the Catholic Church, but very little is known of him. The accounts of the papacy of Pope Sylvester I preserved in the Liber Pontificalis (7th or 8th century) are little else than a record of the gifts said to have been conferred on the Church by Emperor Constantine I, but it does say that he was the son of a Roman named Rufinus.
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  • April 2009
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Birthplace
  • Sant'Angelo a Scala, Avellino http://www.comune.santangeloascala.av.it/
term start
  • 0314-01-31(xsd:date)
Birth Date
  • ???
Deathplace
  • ???
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  • November 2009
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  • Sylvester
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Name
  • Sylvester I
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  • 300(xsd:integer)
Caption
  • (Pope Sylvester I portrayed slaying a dragon and resurrecting its victims)
feast day
  • --01-02
  • --12-31
English Name
  • Sylvester I
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  • November 2009
Title
Titles
  • Pope
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  • 0335-12-31(xsd:date)
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  • 0335-12-31(xsd:date)
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Years
  • 314(xsd:integer)
Birth name
  • Sylvester
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  • Sylvester was pope from 31 January 314 to 31 December 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. He filled the See of Rome at a very important era in the history of the Catholic Church, but very little is known of him. The accounts of the papacy of Pope Sylvester I preserved in the Liber Pontificalis (7th or 8th century) are little else than a record of the gifts said to have been conferred on the Church by Emperor Constantine I, but it does say that he was the son of a Roman named Rufinus. During his pontificate were built the great churches founded at Rome by Constantine, e.g. the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, St. Peter's Basilica, and several cemeterial churches over the graves of martyrs. Saint Sylvester did not himself attend the First Council of Nicaea in 325, but he was represented by two legates, Vitus and Vincentius, and he approved the council's decision. At an early stage copious legend supplemented his scanty history, bringing him into close relationship with the first Christian emperor. These legends were introduced especially into the Vita beati Sylvestri, which appeared in the East and has been preserved in Greek and Syriac; and in Latin in the Constitutum Sylvestri – an apocryphal account of an alleged Roman council which belongs to the Symmachian forgeries and appeared between 501 and 508. They also appear in the Donation of Constantine.
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