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Key Facts |
| Other names |
Marcus Fulvius Victor |
| Born |
148 |
| Location |
Born in the former Phoenician city of Neapolis, Leptis Magna in Libya. |
| Bloodline |
Fulvius |
| Married |
Yes |
| Children |
Pope Callixtus |
| Position |
Pope (199-205) |
| Died |
205 (aged 57) |
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Background |
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Marcus Fulvius Victor was born and raised at Leptis Magna (modern Libya, southeast of Carthage, modern Tunisia, North Africa). Marcus came from a wealthy, distinguished and ancient family who were related to the original Kings of Rome and held estates at Tusculum, south of Rome. His grandfather Fulvius Pius was forced to escape from Rome after Antonius Pius - a dedicated Gnostic - sought to execute any Roman nobles belonging to the Pauline sect (Catholicism) and still involved in human sacrifice. |
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Upon his Septimus Severus being appointed Emperor, Marcus travelled to Rome with his father Victor where his father was promptly made the new Bishop of Rome of Paulinity (forerunner to Catholicism). |
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When his father Pope Victor died in 199, Marcus became the next Bishop of Rome (Pope) and is known as Zephyrinus a word which comes from the Greek Zephyros meaning "intelligent". |
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In a deliberate play on words, the heavily edited works of Hippolytus, the last leader of Gnostics in Rome, he is alleged to have described him as a simple man without education, a weak man "unskilled in the church's rule". Given the name is "intelligent", we can best assume the forgeries of the works of Hippolytus show signs of weakness and lack of skill. |
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In truth, his father had long had the son of Valentinus murdered in 193 upon becoming only the 2nd Pauline Bishop of Rome. Instead, Pope Zephyrinus maintained the fraud originated under his father that the "great Hippolytus" was still alive. |
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Pope Zephyrinus continued the work started by his father of the massive undertaking to restore to glory the Phrygianum of Magna Mater, (the Great Temple of Cybele) on Vatican Hill as the first official church of Paulinity and of Catholicism. |
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While no direct external evidence remains of his reign as accurately the 3rd Bishop of Rome since Pope Linus, it is clear the relationship between his family and the Severan dynasty under Emperor Caracalla (198-217) dramatically worsened. |
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His brother Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, the commander of the Praetorian Guard was accused of plotting against the Emperor and executed in 205. Tertullian even abandoned his post in supporting the revisions to Paulinity (Catholicism) instituted by his father in disgust, returning to Carthage to create his own cult. |
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Then in 211, Carcalla ordered the murder of his own wife and family who were the daughter and grandaughter of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus. |
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Pope Zephyrinus died no later than 217, the same year that Caracalla died. It is almost certain he was murdered and may have been executed earlier, having been implicated in the plot. Given his son (Callixtus) was supposed to have been exiled to the mines at Sardinia, it is probable he was executed around 205. |
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Pope Zephyrinus was succeeded by his son Pope Callixtus I. |
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