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Pope Innocent I (Latin: Innocentius I; died 12 March 417) was Pope from 401 to his death in 417.According to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis Innocent was a native of Albano and the son of a man called Innocentius but his contemporary Jerome referred to him as the son of the previous pope Anastasius I probably a unique case of a son succeeding his father in the papacy.Innocent I lost no opportunity in maintaining and extending the authority of the Roman apostolic See.
