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((Short description|Head of the Catholic Church from c. 126 to c. 137))
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| term_start = c. 126
| term_end = c. 137
| predecessor = [[Pope Sixtus I|Sixtus I]]
| successor = [[Pope Hyginus|Hyginus]]
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| birth_place = [[Terranova da Sibari]], [[Calabria]], [[Roman Italy]]
| death_date = c. 137
| death_place = [[Rome]], [[Roman Italy]], [[Roman Empire]]
| feast_day = ((unbulleted list|5 January (Catholic)|[[January 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)|5 January]] ([[Eastern Orthodox Church]]) and [[February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)|22 February]] ([[Eastern churches]])))
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'''Pope Telesphorus''' (((lang-el|Τελεσφόρος))) was the [[bishop of Rome]] from ((circa)) 126 to his death ((circa)) 137, during the reigns of Roman Emperors [[Hadrian]] and [[Antoninus Pius]]. He was of [[Greeks|Greek]] ancestry and born in [[Terranova da Sibari]],<ref>[http://www.cristoraul.com/ENGLISH/History-of-the-Popes/Second-Century/4-Telesphorus-Hyginius-Pius_i.html SAINT TELESPHORUS (119-127). SAINT HYGINUS (127-139). SAINT PIUS I (139-142)<!-- Bot generated title -->] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402041822/http://www.cristoraul.com/ENGLISH/History-of-the-Popes/Second-Century/4-Telesphorus-Hyginius-Pius_i.html |date=2 April 2014 ))</ref><ref>[http://thepopepodcast.blogspot.com.au/2008/06/pope-telesphorus.html The Pope Podcast: Pope Telesphorus<!-- Bot generated title -->] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801044907/http://thepopepodcast.blogspot.com.au/2008/06/pope-telesphorus.html |date=1 August 2013 ))</ref><ref>[[:it:Papa Telesforo]]</ref> [[Calabria]], [[Roman Italy|Italy]].

The [[Carmelites]] venerate Telesphorus as a patron saint of the order since some sources depict him as a hermit living on [[Mount Carmel]]. He is also a [[martyr]] according to the ancient testimony of [[Irenaeus]].

==Biography==
Telesphorus is traditionally considered as the eighth Bishop of Rome in succession after [[Saint Peter|Peter]]. The ''[[Liber Pontificalis]]'' mentions that he had been an [[anchorite]] (or hermit) monk prior to assuming office. According to the testimony of [[Irenaeus]] (''[[Against Heresies (Irenaeus)|Against Heresies]]'' III.3.3), he suffered a "glorious" martyrdom. Although most early popes are called martyrs by sources such as the ''Liber Pontificalis'' (dating to the 3rd century at earliest), Telesphorus is the first to whom Irenaeus, writing considerably earlier (c. 180 AD), gives this title, thus making his martyrdom the earliest attested martyrdom of a pope after Peter.

Eusebius (''Church History'' iv.7; iv.14) places the beginning of his pontificate in the twelfth year of the reign of Emperor Hadrian (128–129) and gives the date of his death as being in the first year of the reign of Antoninus Pius (138–139).

In [[Roman Martyrology]], his feast is celebrated on 2 January; the Eastern churches celebrate it on 22 February.

The tradition of [[Misa de Gallo|Christmas Midnight Masses]], the celebration of [[Easter]] on Sundays, the keeping of a seven-week [[Lent]] before Easter and the singing of the [[Gloria in Excelsis Deo|Gloria]] are usually attributed to his pontificate, but some [[historian]]s doubt that such attributions are accurate.

A fragment of a letter from Irenæus to Pope Victor I during the Easter controversy in the late 2nd century, also preserved by Eusebius, testifies that Telesphorus was one of the Roman bishops who always celebrated Easter on Sunday, rather than on other days of the week according to the calculation of the Jewish Passover. Unlike Victor, however, Telesphorus remained in communion with those communities that did not follow this custom.

The town of [[Saint-Télesphore, Quebec|Saint-Télesphore]], in the southwestern part of [[Canada|Canada's]] [[Quebec]] [[provinces of Canada|province]], is named after him.

==See also==
((Portal|Biography|Christianity|History))
*[[List of Catholic saints]]
*[[List of popes]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==Further reading==
*Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Saints''. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ((ISBN|0-14-051312-4)).
*Kelly, J.N.D. ''Oxford Dictionary of Popes.'' (1986). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
* Benedict XVI. ''The Roman Martyrology''. Gardners Books, 2007. ((ISBN|978-0-548-13374-3)).
*Chapman, John. ''Studies on the Early Papacy''. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1971. ((ISBN|978-0-8046-1139-8)).
*Fortescue, Adrian, and Scott M. P. Reid. ''The Early Papacy: To the Synod of Chalcedon in 451''. Southampton: Saint Austin Press, 1997. ((ISBN|978-1-901157-60-4)).
*Loomis, Louise Ropes. ''The Book of Popes'' (''Liber Pontificalis''). Merchantville, NJ: Evolution Publishing. ((ISBN|1-889758-86-8))

==External links==
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*[http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/01_01_0125-0136-_Telesphorus,_Sanctus,_Martyr.html ''The Works of Pope Telesphorus''] (from Documenta Catholica Omnia) ((inlang|la))
*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14477b.htm "Pope St. Telesphorus" ''Catholic Encyclopedia'']
*((Cite EB1911|wstitle=Telesphorus))

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