Pius I, Bishop of Rome
?–155 CE · Aquileia
Pius I led the Roman church around the mid-second century. He is best known through a near-contemporary connection: the Muratorian Fragment states that the Shepherd of Hermas, a widely circulated Christian text, was written by Hermas while his brother Pius was bishop of Rome—an unusually concrete, if debated, datum for this era. His pontificate saw continued struggle against Gnostic and Marcionite movements then strong in the city. The Liber Pontificalis assigns him an origin at Aquileia and various decrees of doubtful authenticity. His reign marks a period when Rome's Christian community was consolidating its identity against rival teachings. He is traditionally counted among the early popes.
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AquileiaItaly
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About Aquileia
Aquileia, near the head of the Adriatic in northeastern Italy (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), was founded as a Roman colony in 181 BCE and grew into one of the empire's major trading and military cities, with perhaps 100,000 inhabitants by the second century. Galen was there with the imperial court during a plague in the late 160s. It became an important Christian see, whose bishops later bore the title patriarch. Around 370 Rufinus met Jerome while living in an ascetic community there; in 381 a council at Aquileia organised by Ambrose of Milan deposed two bishops accused of Arianism, and Bishop Chromatius later commissioned Rufinus's Latin translation of Eusebius. Attila destroyed the city in 452; its basilica and ruins are a UNESCO site.
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