Papa Hyginus alikuwa papa kuanzia takriban 138 hadi kifo chake takriban 142/149. Alitokea Ugiriki. Alimfuata Papa Telesphorus akafuatwa na Papa Pius I. Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu. Sikukuu yake ni tarehe 11 Januari. Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko Orodha ya Mapapa Mababu wa Kanisa Opera Omnia https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.index.html#holy-father Irenaeus says that the gnostic Valentinus came to Rome in Hyginus' time, remaining there until Anicetus became pontiff (On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis, III, iii). Cerdo, another Gnostic and predecessor of Marcion of Sinope, also lived at Rome in the reign of Hyginus; by confessing his errors and recanting, he succeeded in obtaining readmission into the Church but eventually fell back into heresy and was expelled from the Church. Cfr. Butler, Alban. "St. Hyginus, Pope and Martyr", The Lives of the Saints, vol.1, 1866 Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c.