Editing Pope Mark

{{Short description|Head of the Catholic Church in 336}}
{{about|the pope of Rome|Pope Mark I of Alexandria|Mark the Evangelist}}
{{distinguish|Mark Pope}}
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|type=Pope
|honorific-prefix=[[Pope Saint]]
|name=Mark
|image=Saint-Marc-à-Loubaud église statue (1).jpg
|caption=Statue of Pope Saint Mark in the church of [[Saint-Marc-à-Loubaud]], France.
|title = [[Bishop of Rome]]
|church = Catholic Church
|term_start=18 January 336
|term_end=7 October 336
|predecessor=[[Pope Sylvester I|Sylvester I]]
|successor=[[Pope Julius I|Julius I]]
|birth_date=
|birth_place=[[Rome]], [[Roman Italy|Italy]], [[Roman Empire]]
|death_date= 7 October 336
|death_place=[[Rome]], [[Roman Italy|Italy]], [[Roman Empire]]
|feast_day=7 October
|tomb = [[Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence]]
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'''Pope Mark''' ({{langx|la|Marcus}}) was the [[bishop of Rome]] from 18 January to his death on 7 October 336.
[[File:Cosimo merlini il vecchio, reliquiario dei ss. marco papa, amato abate e concordia martire, 1622, argento su legno 06.JPG|thumb|[[Reliquary]] of Pope Mark in the [[Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence]].]]
Little is known of Mark's early life. According to the ''[[Liber Pontificalis]]'', he was a [[Rome|Roman]], and his father's name was Priscus. Mark succeeded [[Sylvester I]] as [[pope]] on 18 January 336.<ref name=Butler>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/lots/lots313.htm Butler, Alban. "St. Mark, Pope", ''Lives of the Saints'', Benziger Bros., 1894]</ref>
 
Some evidence suggests that the early lists of bishops and martyrs known as the ''[[Depositio episcoporum]]'' and ''[[Depositio martyrum]]'' were begun during his pontificate. According to the ''Liber Pontificalis'', Pope Mark issued a constitution investing the [[bishop of Ostia]] with a [[pallium]] and confirming his power to consecrate newly elected popes. Likewise according to the ''Liber Pontificalis'', Pope Mark is credited with the foundation of the [[San Marco (Rome)|Basilica of San Marco]], a [[basilica]] in Rome, and a cemetery church over the [[Catacomb of Balbina]], just outside the city on lands obtained as a donation from [[Emperor Constantine]].<ref name="ce">{{Cite web |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09674a.htm |title=Kirsch, Johann Peter. "Pope St. Mark." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 16 Mar. 2015 |access-date=16 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520112621/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09674a.htm |archive-date=20 May 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Mark died of [[natural causes]] on 7 October and was buried in the catacomb of [[Saint Balbina|Balbina]]. In 1048, his remains were removed to the town of [[Velletri]], and in 1145 were relocated to the Basilica of San Marco in Rome, where they are kept in an urn under the altar. His feast day is celebrated on 7 October.<ref name="ce"/> He is particularly venerated at the [[Abbadia San Salvatore]] at [[Monte Amiata]].

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|Christianity|History}}
*[[List of Catholic saints]]
*[[List of popes]]

==References==
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