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VICTOR I

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 25 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VICTOR I . was See also:bishop of See also:Rome from about 190 to 198. He submitted to the See also:opinion of the episcopate in the various parts of Christendom the divergence between the See also:Easter usage of Rome and that of the bishops of See also:Asia. The bishops, particularly St See also:Irenaeus of See also:Lyons, declared themselves in favour of the usage of Rome, but refused to See also:associate themselves with the See also:excommunication pronounced by Victor against their See also:Asiatic colleagues. At Rome Victor excommunicated Theodotus of See also:Byzantium on See also:account of his See also:doctrine as to the See also:person of See also:Christ. St See also:Jerome attributes to Victor some opuscula in Latin, which are believed to be recognized in certain apocryphal See also:treatises of St See also:Cyprian.

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