Papa Linus alikuwa Papa kuanzia takriban 68 hadi kifo chake takriban 79. Alitokea Tuscia, Italia. Alimfuata Papa wa kwanza, Mtume Petro, akafuatwa na Papa Anacletus. Ndiye aliyetajwa na Mtume Paulo katika Waraka wa pili kwa Timotheo, 4:21 kwamba alikuwa naye mwishoni mwa maisha yake. Tangu kale anaheshimiwa kama mtakatifu na kutajwa katika Kanuni ya Kirumi. Sikukuu yake ni tarehe 23 Septemba. Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko Orodha ya mapapa https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.index.html#holy-father J. N. D. Kelly, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, 2005, pp. 6–7. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3: 3.3 "Post Petrum primus Ecclesiam Romanam tenuit Linus" (Chronicon, 14g (p. 267)) Church History, 3.2 Church Fathers: Homily 10 on Second Timothy (Chrysostom). The Chronography of 354 AD, Part 13: Bishops of Rome Liber Pontificalis, 2 Kirsch, Johann Peter (1910). "Pope St. Linus", Catholic Encyclopedia 9. New York, New York, USA: Robert Appleton Company.