All three have been recognised in the Church as saints. Thought to be of Berber origin, Pope Victor I was in charge of the Catholic Church at a time when Christians were sometimes being persecuted ...

Pope Victor, who led the Church between 189 and 199, was from North Africa. But as the percentage of African faithful increases compared to an aging and increasingly secular Europe, the debate ...

There were three African popes in early church history; before Gelasius was Pope Victor I from 189-199 A.D., and Pope Miltiades from 311 to 314 A.D. There has never been a pope from Asia or North ...