Saint Victor Ier (? - 199) was Berber (North Africa).

Victor Ier is the 14th pope and the 13th successor of saint Pierre on the papal throne. It is with him that starts to affirm the will of the bishops of Rome to affirm a moral magister on the other Churches. According to the Liber Pontificalis Victor is of African origin but holy Jerome makes an authentic Roman of it. In any case it systematically supports the Roman elements within the Church. It succeeds Éleuthère towards 189 and controls the Church of Rome until worms 198/199 approximately. It is at that time that Latin supplants the Greek in the liturgy. Victor is the first pope of Latin language, but it will be necessary to wait year 230 so that the mass is celebrated in Rome in Latin and not in Greek.

He succeeds in organizing many synods which will manage to get along over the day of Easter which will be celebrated one Sunday as in Rome. Only the province of Asia refuses to be aligned on the Roman practice. It acts as rather intransigent bishop in particular with those which refuse to be aligned on the Roman decisions and refuses the least pluralism of thought. It also fights with eagerness the gnostic .

It is one of the three African popes of the Catholicisme.