Evaristus, Bishop of Rome
?–105 CE · Rome
Evaristus is listed as the fifth bishop of Rome, succeeding Clement around the turn of the second century. He is an almost entirely shadowy figure for whom no contemporary records survive. The later Liber Pontificalis offers an unreliable origin story and credits him with organizing the city's churches into title-parishes and appointing deacons, but these administrative claims are anachronistic projections rather than documented history. His name secures a place in the early succession lists of the Roman church, which is essentially the extent of what can responsibly be said. Any martyrdom tradition is unattested by reliable early sources. He is traditionally counted among the early popes.
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Under the Julio-Claudian and Flavian emperors Rome was the capital of a pagan empire with an early Christian community. According to Acts, the apostle Paul arrived there as a prisoner around 60 CE; Christian tradition holds that both Peter and Paul were martyred under Nero, c. 64-68 CE.
About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
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