Pope Alexander I

Alexander I (* in Rome, † May 3 115 in Rome) was the sixth Bishop of Rome, the successor of Evaristus and predecessor of Sixtus.

Life

According to Eusebius of Caesarea, he took over in the twelfth year of the reign of Trajan, ie in 109/110 the episcopate. After ten years in office, Alexander died in the third year of the reign of Emperor Hadrian So after August 119 After Liber Pontificalis he was the son of a Roman named Alexander from the region Caput Tauri. He is said to be have been 10 years, 7 months and 2 days Bishop of Rome and at the time of Emperor Trajan during the Consulate of Aemilius Aelianus and Antistius Vetus in the year 116 died. The bishop's throne remained vacant before Sixtus who succeeded for 35 days. In turn, Alexander Catalogus Liberianus be attributed to 11 years, 2 months and 1 day - but the consuls listed do not fit at the moment. After that Alexander was ordained a bishop during the consulate of Cornelius Palma and Tullus Calvisius in 109 and to have died during the Consulate of Aelianus and Vetus in the year 116.

He was identified through the centuries with the martyr Alexander the Nomentana whose anniversary of the May 3 is identical with that of the bishop in the Orthodox churches of March 16. But neither Irenaeus nor Eusebius mention a martyrdom of Alexander I. He is said to have converted and baptized Quirinus of Rome and his daughter Balbina to Christianity.

Alexander is the patron against goiter and scrofula.

Relics of Alexander I reached 834 to Freising, which is why a second Memorial Day on May 5 is celebrated here. Even after Aschaffenburg in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter and Alexander came relics.

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