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Pope St Anastasius I

† AD 401 · pontificate 27 November AD 399 – 19 December 401

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Pope St Anastasius I

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Roman by birth, he succeeded Siricius and was pope from 26 November 399 to 19 December 401. His brief pontificate was entirely taken up with the Origenist controversy (v. ORIGEN), which unfolded in the West between Rufinus of Aquileia, translator and reviser of Origen's Περὶ Ἀρχῶν, and St. Jerome, to whom Rufinus recalled that he had once been an admirer of the great Alexandrian scholar. A., alarmed by Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria, and asked for a ruling by Eusebius …

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