Pontificate
| Portrait
| Name
| Personal Name
| Age at start/end of papacy
| Notes
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26 November 516 BCE
– 12 March 515 BCE
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| Ambitius I
| St. Chris the Optimist
| 8/9
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The only Pope who lived before Jesus of Nazareth. Known by many Christians as "St. Impatient" or "Christopher the Unreasonably Premature".
Ambitius I was also widely renowned for looking several decades older than he really was.
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