Papa Linus

Papa Linus alikuwa Papa kuanzia takriban 68 hadi kifo chake takriban 79https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.index.html#holy-father. Alitokea mkoa wa Toscana, Italiahttp://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/71550.

Alimfuata Papa wa kwanzaJ. N. D. Kelly, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, 2005, pp. 6–7., Mtume PetroIrenaeus, Against Heresies, 3: 3.3"Post Petrum primus Ecclesiam Romanam tenuit Linus" (Chronicon, 14g (p. 267))Church History, 3.2The Chronography of 354 AD, Part 13: Bishops of RomeLiber Pontificalis, 2, akafuatwa na Papa Anacletus. 

Ndiye aliyetajwa na Mtume Paulo katika Waraka wa pili kwa Timotheo, 4:21 kwamba alikuwa naye mwishoni mwa maisha yakeIrenaeus stated that this is the same Linus who became Bishop of Rome, and this conclusion is generally still accepted..

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa kama mtakatifu na kutajwa katika Kanuni ya Kirumi. 

Sikukuu yake ni tarehe 23 SeptembaMartyrologium Romanum: ex Decreto Sacrosancti oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II instauratum auctoritate Ioannis Pauli P.P. II promulgatum, Romae 2001, ISBN 8820972107: "At Rome, the commemoration of Saint Linus, Pope, to whom, as Saint Irenaeus narrates, the blessed Apostles entrusted the responsibility of the episcopate of the Church founded in the City, and whom the blessed Paul the Apostle mentions as a companion of his.".

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Tanbihi

Marejeo
 Louise Ropes Loomis, The Book of Popes (Liber Pontificalis). Merchantville, NJ: Evolution Publishing. ISBN 1-889758-86-8 (Reprint of the 1916 edition. Stops with Pope Pelagius, 579–590.  English translation with scholarly footnotes, and illustrations).
 Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX. New York 1910, Robert Appleton Company. * Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers; St. Clement of Rome, I (London, 1890), uk. 201 n.k.;
 Adolf von Harnack, Geschichte der Altchristlichen Literatur, II: Die Chronologie I (Leipzig, 1897), uk. 70.
 Claudio Rendina, I Papi. Storia e segreti, Newton & Compton, Roma, 1983.

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