ST. POPE GAIUS or CAIUS
28TH Pope (283-296)

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Caius was pope for twelve years, four months, and seven days, from 17 December, 283, to 22 April, 296, according to the Liberian catalogue (Harnack, Chronol., I, 155, after Lipsius and Lightfoot); Eusebius is wrong in giving him fifteen years. He is mentioned in the fourth-century "Depositio Episcoporum" (therefore not as a martyr): X kl maii Caii in Callisti. He was buried in the of the in that cemetary. Nothing whatever is known of his life. He lived in the time of peace before the last great.