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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Soter, bishop of Rome, ob. c. 170

Saint ID

S00700

Reported Death Not Before

165

Reported Death Not After

175

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01096The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Soter (bishop of Rome, S00700), in its first edition records his burial close to the body of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036) at the Vatican, just outside Rome, but in its second states that he was buried in the cemetery of Callixtus on the via Appia; both versions agree that this was on 22 April [AD 170].