{"id":"pope-liberius","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-liberius","language":"en","name":"Pope Liberius","name_en":"Pope Liberius","name_ne":null,"description":"Head of the Catholic Church from 352 to 366","headline":"Head of the Catholic Church from 352 to 366","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Pope Liberius (310 – 24 September 366) was the bishop of Rome from 17 May 352 until his death on 24 September 366. According to the Catalogus Liberianus, he was consecrated on 22 May as the successor to Julius I. He is not mentioned as a saint in the Roman Martyrology, making him the earliest pontiff not to be venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and, along with Anastasius II, one of only two popes to be omitted from Catholic sainthood in the first 500 years of church history.","summary_more":["Liberius is mentioned in the Greek Menology, the Eastern equivalent to the martyrologies of the Western Church and a measure of sainthood prior to the institution of the formal Western processes of canonization."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"310","date":"0310"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102105#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Rome","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102105#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"24 September 366","date":"0366-09-24"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102105#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Rome","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102105#P20"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"Catholic priest","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q250867"},{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102105#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Pope (17 May 352 – 24 September 366)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19546","start":"0352-05-17","end":"0366-09-24"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102105#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Liberius","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102105"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Pope Liberius born?","a":"Pope Liberius was born on 310 in Rome."},{"q":"What positions has Pope Liberius held?","a":"Positions held by Pope Liberius include: Pope (0352–0366)."}],"related":[{"name":"Pope Telesphorus","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-telesphorus"},{"name":"Pope Gregory XIII","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-gregory-xiii"},{"name":"Pope Clement VII","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-clement-vii"},{"name":"Pope Pius I","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-pius-i"},{"name":"Pope Boniface I","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-boniface-i"},{"name":"Pope Agapetus I","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-agapetus-i"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/pope-liberius-ca34e92a58.jpg","width":500,"height":696,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Matthias Grünewald","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthias_Gr%C3%BCnewald_-_Establishment_of_the_Santa_Maria_Maggiore_in_Rome_(detail)_-_WGA10780.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Pope Liberius","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Liberius","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q102105","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102105","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Matthias Grünewald - Establishment of the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (detail) - WGA10780.jpg by Matthias Grünewald (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthias_Gr%C3%BCnewald_-_Establishment_of_the_Santa_Maria_Maggiore_in_Rome_(detail)_-_WGA10780.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Pope Liberius, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Matthias Grünewald - Establishment of the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (detail) - WGA10780.jpg — Matthias Grünewald, Public domain.","cite":"\"Pope Liberius\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/pope-liberius. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-03T06:43:32Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-liberius","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-liberius","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-liberius?lang=ne"}}