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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIXTUS  , the name of five popes . Sixxus I . (

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Xystus) was the
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sixth
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bishop of
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Rome (c . 116—125) and took the name on that
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account . S1XTU8 II., successor of Stephanus I. as bishop of Rome in 2J7, suffered martyrdom under
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Valerian on the 6th of
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August 258 . He restored the relations with the
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African and Eastern Churches which had been broken off by his predecessor on the question of heretical
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baptism .
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Dionysius succeeded him .

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