October 125-136 A.D. Mr. Telesphorus—Rome’s 7th or 8th Senior Presbyter. Some uncertainy obtains here
October 125-136 A.D. Mr. Telesphorus—Rome’s 7 th or 8 th Senior Presbyter. Some uncertainy obtains here. Kirsch, Johann Peter. "Pope St. Telesphorus." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14477b.htm . Accessed 17 May 2014. St. Telesphorus (Lived about 125-136.) St. Telesphorus was the seventh Roman bishop in succession from the Apostles , and, according to the testimony of St. Irenæus ( Against Heresies III.3.3 ), suffered a glorious martyrdom . Eusebius ( Church History IV.7, IV.14 ) places the beginning of his pontificate in the twelfth of Hadrian's reign (128-129), his death in the first year of the reign of Antoninus Pius (138-139). These statements, however, should be compared with Lightfoot, "The Apostolic Fathers", I ...