What is Pope Eleuterus?
{{Infobox Christian leader |type = Pope |honorific-prefix=Pope Saint |name=Eleuterus |image=Eleutherius.jpg |image_size=220px |birth_name=Eleuterus or Eleutherius |term_start=c. 174 |term_end=189 |predecessor=[[Pope Soter|Soter]] |successor=[[Pope Victor I|Victor I]] |birth_date=??? |birth_place=[[Nicopolis]], [[Epirus]], [[Greece]] |death_date=189 |death_place=[[Rome]], [[Roman Empire]] |other= }} '''Pope Eleuterus''' (??? − 189) was thirteenth [[Pope]], the official title is the [[Bishop of Rome]] of the [[Catholic Church]] from c. 174 to his death in 189. He was born in [[Nicopolis]], [[Epirus]], [[Greece]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Butler, Alban; Attwater, Donald; Thurston, Herbert|title=Butler's Lives of the Saints (Volume 2)}}</ref> In ''Liber Pontificalis'', it says that they ascribe a decree to Pope Eleutherius that no kind of food should be despised by Christians(Et hoc iterum firmavit ut nulla esca a Christianis repudiaretur, maxime fidelibus, quod Deus creavit, quæ tamen rationalis et humana est).<ref>{{cite book|author=Saint Peter|title=The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis)|page=6}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{S-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{S-bef|before=[[Pope Soter|Soter]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Pope]]|years=175–189}} {{s-aft|after=[[Pope Victor I|Victor I]]}} {{end}} {{Popes}} {{multistub|Christianity|bio}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Eleuterus}} [[Category:Popes]] [[Category:Year of birth unknown]] [[Category:189 deaths]] [[Category:Greek people]]