Pope Anterus
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Pope Anterus (Template:Langx,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Langx, romanized: Antheros)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was the bishop of Rome from 21 November 235 until his death on 3 January 236.<ref name="ce">Shahan, Thomas (1907). "Pope St. Anterus" in The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</ref>
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Anterus was the son of Romulus, born in Petilia Policastro,<ref name="sqpn">Pope Saint Antherus » Saints.SQPN.com</ref> Calabria, Italy. He is thought to have been of Greek origin,<ref name=montor>Template:Cite book</ref> and his name may indicate that he was a freed slave.<ref name=Lev/> He succeeded Pope Pontian, who had been deported from Rome to Sardinia, along with the antipope Hippolytus. He created one bishop, for the city of Fondi.<ref name=montor/>
Some scholars believe Anterus was martyred,<ref name=montor/><ref name=Marucchi>Template:Cite book</ref> because he ordered greater strictness in searching into the acts of the martyrs, exactly collected by the notaries appointed by Pope Clement I.<ref name=montor/><ref name=CE/> Other scholars doubt this and believe it is more likely that he died in undramatic circumstances during the persecutions of Emperor Maximinus the Thracian.<ref name=Lev>Template:Cite book</ref>
He was buried in the papal crypt of the Catacomb of Callixtus, on the Appian Way<ref name=montor/> in Rome. The site of his sepulchre was discovered by Giovanni Battista de Rossi in 1854, with some broken remnants of the Greek epitaph engraved on the narrow oblong slab that closed his tomb;<ref name=CE>Template:CathEncy</ref> only the Greek term for bishop was legible.<ref name=Marucchi/> His ashes had been removed to the Church of Saint Sylvester in the Campus Martius<ref name=montor/> and were discovered on 17 November 1595, when Pope Clement VIII rebuilt that church.<ref name=montor/>
Pope Anterus is remembered in the Catholic Church on 3 January<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and in the Russian Orthodox Church on 18 August.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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