Word: cletus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most recent previous correction of the papal succession was in 1947, when the Yearbook's compiler decided that Athenian Pope St. Anacletus (circa 100-112) and Roman Pope St. Cletus (circa 78-90) were really the same man; therefore he dropped Anacletus. Confusions and discrepancies abound in ancient records. St. Felix, who died in 365, is erroneously listed as Pope Felix II (355-365); scholars still are not sure whether Dioscorus, who died in 530 and is listed as an antipope,* was not in fact legitimate, or whether Leo VIII (963-965), the candidate of Emperor Otto...