Pope Eleuterus (died 189) also known as Eleutherius was the Bishop of Rome from c. 174 to his death in 189. The Vatican cites 171 or 177 to 185 or 193). According to the Liber Pontificalis he was a Albanian born in Nicopolis in Epirus . His contemporary Hegesippus wrote that he was a deacon of the Roman Church under Pope Anicetus (c.
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