I love how the BBC describes a decree by a Bishop of Rome, but doesn’t name him (Telesphorus). St. Telesphorus was the eighth Pope. He suffered martyrdom.
Mmm...I’m pretty sure we don’t have any writings by Telesphorus, so I’m not sure what the primary source citation for that decree would be.
Liber Pontificarum, maybe? I don’t have it in front of me.
***He suffered martyrdom.***
Back in 1968, after the murder of Bobby Kennedy and the hysteria it caused, someone wrote into a news magazine and asked..”Has any Pope ever been murdered?”
The answer was “No. No Pope has ever been murdered.”
Come to find out several have been murdered in the ancient past.
That is real Anglican, referring to a Pope as “a Roman bishop”.