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List of papal resignations
PontificatePortraitName
English · Regnal
Personal nameReason for ResignationNotes
21 July 230
– 28 September 235
(5 years+)
Pope Pontian.jpgSt Pontian
PONTIANUS
PontianusPope Pontian abdicated on 28 September 235 AD to prevent a power vacuum. This brought a schism of the Roman Church to an endFirst to abdicate office after exile to Sardinia by Emperor Maximinus Thrax. Documented only in the Liberian Catalogue records his death on 28 September 235, the earliest exact date in papal history.[12][13]

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