Chapter I: Front Matter

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St. PETER
LINUS, First Bishop of Rome, CE 66.
CLETUS or ANACLETUS Second Bishop of Rome, CE 78.
CLEMENT, Third Bishop of Rome, CE 91.
EVARISTUS Fourth Bishop of Rome, CE 100.
ALEXANDER, Fifth Bishop of Rome, CE 109.
SIXTUS, Fourth Bishop of Rome, CE 119.
TELESPHORUS, Seventh Bishop of Rome, CE 128.
HYGINUS, Eighth Bishop of Rome, CE 139.
PIUS, Ninth Bishop of Rome, CE 142.
ANICETUS, Tenth Bishop of Rome, CE 157.
SOTER, Eleventh Bishop of Rome, CE 168.
ELEUTHERIUS, Twelfth Bishop of Rome, CE 176.
VICTOR, Thirteenth Bishop of Rome, CE 192.
ZEPHYRINUS, Fourteenth Bishop of Rome, CE 201.
CALLISTUS, Fifteenth Bishop of Rome, CE 219.
URBANUS, Sixteenth Bishop of Rome, CE 223.
PONTIANUS, Seventeenth Bishop of Rome, CE 230.
ANTERUS, Eighteenth Bishop of Rome, CE 235.
FABIANUS, Nineteenth Bishop of Rome, CE 236.
CORNELIUS, Twentieth Bishop of Rome, CE 251.
LUCIUS, Twenty-first Bishop of Rome, CE 252.
STEPHEN, Twenty-second Bishop of Rome, CE 253.
SIXTUS II. Twenty-third Bishop of Rome, CE 257.
DIONYSIUS, Twenty-fourth Bishop of Rome, CE 258.
FELIX, Twenty-fifth Bishop of Rome, CE 269.
EUTYCHIANUS, Twenty-sixth Bishop of Rome, CE 275.
CAIUS, Twenty-seventh Bishop of Rome, CE 283.
MARCELLINUS, Twenty-eighth Bishop of Rome, CE 296.
MARCELLUS, Twenty-ninth Bishop of Rome, CE 308.
EUSEBIUS, Thirtieth Bishop of Rome, CE 310.
MELCHIADES, Thirty-first Bishop of Rome, CE 311.
SYLVESTER, Thirty-second Bishop of Rome, CE 314.
MARK, Thirty-third Bishop of Rome, CE 336.
JULIUS, Thirty-fourth Bishop of Rome, CE 337.
LIBERIUS, Thirty-fifth Bishop of Rome, CE 352.
DAMASUS, Thirty-sixth Bishop of Rome, CE 366.
SYRICIUS, Thirty-seventh BISHOP of Rome, CE 384.
ANASTASIUS, Thirty-eighth Bishop of Rome, CE 398.
INNOCENT, Thirty-ninth Bishop of Rome, CE 402.
ZOSIMUS, Fortieth Bishop of Rome, CE 417.
BONIFACE, Forty-first Bishop of Rome, CE 419.
CELESTINE, Forty-second Bishop of Rome, CE 422.

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THE
HISTORY
OF THE
POPES,

FROM THE
Foundation of the SEE of _ROME_,

TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

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VOL. I.

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_By_ _ARCHIBALD BOWER_, _Esq_;

_Heretofore Public Professor of_ Rhetoric, History, _and_ Philosophy,
_in the
Universities of_ Rome, Fermo, _and_ Macerata,

_And, in the latter Place, Counsellor of the Inquisition_.

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The _THIRD EDITION_.

_LONDON_:
Printed for the _AUTHOR_.

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