Talk:Pope Sylvester I

message: is there anything at all about his early life?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.188.33 (talk) 19:42, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Early Life

message: Only the Armenian church recognizes Sylvester as a doctor of the church. Shouldn't this be a separate category? Student7 (talk) 00:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe, maybe not. Many of the doctors (Basil the Great, for example) are recognized by several different churches, and a different category for each would overload the categories on their articles. However, it should be mentioned in the article which group considers him a Doctor of the Church, with a good citation. Gentgeen (talk) 08:46, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Doctor of the church

message: There is no doubt that the English version of his name is Sylvester. See Catholic Encyclopedia.Student7 (talk) 21:44, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nota bene:  Some refer to this saintly pope as Saint Pope Silvester I;  you can search him by either spelling of that name.  philipofBVMPhilipofBVM (talk) 00:03, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: There's a folk legend that Pope Sylvester was an advocator of torturing Jews and antisemitism. That's sheer nonsense, it's just made up by stupid people who think 'EW! CHRISTIANS! GOYIM!' Should this be added? Siúnrá (talk) 12:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a strongly held belief in Israel, and is covered in the Hebrew Wikipedia article. I don't think it's relavent in this page. (Vaskafdt (talk) 01:22, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Antisemitism

message: Much of this article has been edited with an anti-Catholic slant, either from an Orthodox point of view or a Protestant one, without any citations. Given that the article makes substantial claims which contradict either generally accepted history or tradition, one would expect at least some tenuous attempt to cite statements claiming that Constantine created the "Pope" or that the Roman Catholic Church was created with the emperor's decree (the separation of the East and West, for that matter, is generally not dated until 1054). This article needs a serious clean up.98.244.79.12 (talk) 04:42, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: When did anyone deny that the Diocese of Rome was founded by Saint Peter? It's not a matter of creating the Bishop of Rome, only a matter of when the Diocese of Rome came to be considered primary. Anyone who denied that the Diocese of Rome was founded by Saint Peter was wrong, but when was such an edit ever made? The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 04:29, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

text: One must agree with the following, above mentioned fact: "Much of this article has been edited with an anti-Catholic slant, either from an Orthodox point of view or a Protestant one, without any citations."  I will strive to cite plenty of sources to prove that Pope Saint Sylvester I was a true Catholic saint, and that he in fact, did baptize the Great Emperor Saint Constantine, long before his death.  The legend that some Arian heretic baptized him at death, is untrue.  See sources from The Catholic Breviary, The Roman Martyology, and other places, some mentioned in this article. philipofBVMPhilipofBVM (talk) 00:00, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's not to the point here, but it is not part of the Catholic faith that St. Peter actually founded the diocese. It has often been assumed, but it is nothing which a Catholic must believe, nor (to my knowledge) historically proven. What a Catholic does have to believe and what by coincidence is historically proven is that if he did not found, at least he went there at some point and, as leader of the Church as a whole, was naturally recognized as its leader once he was there. (Likewise, it's not worth debating much whether once there St. Peter personally held the title of bishop once there. The alternative is that someone else, say: Linus, was then called "bishop" while St. Peter actually led it, but with the title of "Apostle" or "First of the Apostles", an assumption quite compatible with Catholic faith.)--131.159.76.194 (talk) 16:10, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV Tag

message: I don't know how to make the table that shows Papal Styles but he should have one because he is a Saint.  Also I don't know enough facts about him but if someone could write a section about him being a Saint.Etineskid (talk) 03:20, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This bishop of Rome was never called "pope" in his lifetime. Some neutral history might be in order.--Wetman (talk) 13:05, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He was never called "saint" in his lifetime either!  :)  Student7 13:59, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  St. Sylvester I 

message: I think the legend refers to Sylvester II not to Saint Sylvester - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sylvester_II
: Looking at the supplied citation, and scrolling back a page, it becomes clear that the necromancy content is attributed to Sylvester II. I have accordingly removed it. Bjenks (talk) 01:25, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legend of the devil 

message: What is the source for the 285 date? Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret attribute his absence from the Council of Nicaea to his great age; 285 would make him 39 or 40 (and about 29 when he was elected pope). Most tertiary sources (the Catholic Encyclopedia among them) give his birthdate as unknown. Bill (talk) 13:59, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for Sylvester's birthdate? 

message: Because it seems to me odd how no one else with that name pops up till centuries later. KuudereKun 15:12, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the oldest source to mention him by the name Sylvester?