Pope Felix I

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Felix I
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Birth name	Felix
Papacy began	January 5, 269
Papacy ended	December 30, 274
Predecessor	Dionysius
Successor	Eutychian
Born	??? Rome, Italy
Died	274 Rome, Italy
Other popes named Felix

Styles of Pope Felix I
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Reference style	His Holiness
Spoken style	Your Holiness
Religious style	Holy Father
Posthumous style	Saint

Pope Saint Felix I was pope from January 5, 269 to December 30, 274.

A Roman by birth, he succeeded Dionysius after his death on December 26, 268 as pope, being elected in January 269. Regarding his pontificate there is little authentic information, but he is said to have given ecclesiastical sanction to the yearly celebration of the mass over the graves of the martyrs, a custom, however, which had previously existed; and the law regarding the consecration of churches is also ascribed to him. On account of, it is said, his having strongly supported the Christians during the persecutions under the emperor Aurelian, he was enrolled among the martyrs, his feast day being December 30, the date of his death in 274.

A fragment of a letter to Maximus, bishop of Alexandria, in support of the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation against the arguments of Paul of Samosata, was in all probability written by Felix, but three other letters ascribed to him are certainly not genuine.

[edit] External links

• Image:Wikisource-logo.svg "Pope St. Felix I" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.
• Opera Omnia

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Dionysius	Bishop of Rome Pope January 5, 269– December 30, 274	Succeeded by Eutychian

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