Editing Pope Victor I (section)

{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from c. 189 to 199}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Pope
| honorific-prefix = [[Pope Saint]]
| name = Victor I
| title = [[Bishop of Rome]]
| church = [[Catholic Church]]
| image = Pfarrkirche Semmering Glasfenster.jpg
| caption = [[Stained glass]] image of Pope-Saint Victor, with anachronistic [[papal tiara]] ([[Semmering, Austria]])
| term_start = 189
| term_end = 199
| predecessor = [[Pope Eleutherius|Eleutherius]]
| successor = [[Pope Zephyrinus|Zephyrinus]]
| birth_date = 110–130 AD
| birth_place = [[Africa (Roman province)|Roman Africa]], [[Roman Empire]]
| death_date = 199 AD
| death_place = [[Rome]], [[Roman Italy|Italy]], [[Roman Empire]]
| other = Victor
| feast_day = 28 July or 11 January
}}
'''Pope Victor I''' (died 199) was a [[Roman Africans|Roman African]] prelate of the [[Great Church| Catholic Church]] who served as the [[Bishop of Rome]] in the late second century. The dates of his tenure are uncertain, but one source states he became pope in 189 and gives the year of his death as 199.<ref name="ce">Kirsch, Johann Peter (1912). "Pope St. Victor I" in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</ref> He was born in the [[Africa (Roman province)|Roman Province of Africa]]. He was later considered a saint. His [[feast day]] is celebrated on 28 July as "St Victor I, Pope and Martyr".<ref>See the [[General Roman Calendar of 1954]]</ref> He was of [[Berber people|Berber]] origin.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology|first=Paul|last=Avis|year=2018|isbn=9780191081378|pages=627–628|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>