Anicet

Anicet is the 11th pope and control surface the Church of Rome of 155 with 166 approximately. Of origin Syria, the paradox with regard to this pope it is that it is completely unknown for us, if it is not by an anecdotic decision with knowing the prohibition made to the members of his clergy carry the long hair. We do not know anything of its standpoint vis-a-vis Marcion always also stirring up, vis-a-vis Valentine of Egypt, vis-a-vis the sect of the Carpocrate S which affirm that the world was created by angels and that Jesus is really the son of Joseph but that God gave him the capacity to make miracles.

Undoubtedly that with the image of its predecessor Pie I {{er}} it leaves true Christian thinkers, such Justin of Nablus or Hégésippe, to fight against the gnostic heresies which cross the Christians of Rome. According to the testimony of Irenee of Lyon, present in Rome under the pontificate of Anicet, brought back by Eusèbe de Césarée the pope would have received the bishop of Smyrna, Polycarpe to regulate with him the disagreement which opposed the Church of Rome and those of Asia without convincing results. Its body rests with the Cimetière of Calixte on the Via Appia.

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