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Pope St Leo I the Great

AD 390–461 · pontificate 29 September AD 440 – 10 November 461

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Pope St Leo I the Great

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He is the first Pope to whom posterity deservedly attributed the title of Great: his was one of the longest and most glorious pontificates that history records (440-61). Benedict XIV proclaimed him a doctor of the Church on 15 October 1754. The Liber Pontificalis calls him "natione Tuscus," and from this adjective it was deduced that he was born at Volterra, where the cult of this Pope is ancient and widespread; but most historians make him a native of Rome, relying on a …

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Letters Epistolae PL 54, 582–1218 · with the Latin
Sermons Sermones PL 54, 141–466 · with the Latin

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