This Felix was later confused with a Roman martyr named Felix, with the result that he was included in lists of the Popes as Felix II and that the succeeding Popes of the same name ( Pope Felix III and Pope Felix IV ) were given wrong numerals, as was Antipope Felix V.

The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1909 ) called this confusion a " distortion of the true facts " and suggested that it arose because the " Liber Pontificalis ", which at this point may be registering a reliable tradition, says that this Felix built a church on the Via Aurelia, which is where the Roman martyr of an earlier date was buried.

" At that time ( 1909 ) the Roman Martyrology had the following text: This entry was based on what the Catholic Encyclopedia called later legends that confound the relative positions of Felix and Liberius.

The feast day of the Roman martyr Felix is 29 July.

As well as the Roman Martyrology, the Roman Missal identified the Saint Felix of 29 July with the antipope.

He and his wife settled at Nola near Naples, where he wrote poems in honor of the martyr Felix, and corresponded with Christian leaders throughout the Roman Empire.

A Roman by birth, Felix was chosen as Pope on 5 January 269, in succession to Pope Dionysius, who had died on 26 December 268

The latter detail is evidently an error, for the fourth century Roman calendar of feasts says that Pope Felix was interred in the Catacomb of Callixtus on the Via Appia.

In the Roman " Feriale " or calendar of feasts, referred to above, the name of Felix occurs in the list of Roman bishops ( Depositio episcoporum ), and not in that of the martyrs.

" for " Jan ." This error persisted in the General Roman Calendar until 1969 ( see General Roman Calendar of 1962 ), by which time the mention of Saint Felix I was reduced to a commemoration in the ferial Mass by decision of Pope Pius XII ( see General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII.

Thereafter, the feast of Saint Felix I, no longer mentioned in the General Roman Calendar, is celebrated on his true day of death, 30 December, and without the qualification of " martyr ".

The geographical position of Dacia Felix ( another name for the Roman province of Dacia ) made it difficult to defend against the barbarians, and during 240 AD-256 AD, under the attacks of the Carpi and the Goths, Dacia was lost.

* Flavius Felix, Roman consul

* Felix II ( excluding Antipope Felix II ), Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 483 – 492

* Antonia Agrippina, a possible granddaughter of Roman Governor of Judea, Antonius Felix

* Catholic Encyclopedia: Felix II

* 1830 – 1831: Felix de Muelenaere ( Catholic Party )

* 1832 – 1834: Felix de Muelenaere ( Catholic Party )

* 1836 – 1849: Felix de Muelenaere ( Catholic Party )

He had long resisted the views of Father Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, " Felix ", one of the leading intellectuals concerned with French Catholic youth, but in May 1830, Lamennais converted him to his liberal version of ultramontanism, that is, the adherence to the absolute universal authority of the papacy in opposition to nationalist and secularist ideas.

Felix Manalo, born on May 10, 1886 in Taguig, Philippines, was baptized a Roman Catholic.

In his 1909 book, Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church, John Abel Felix Prosper Nainfa proposed the use of the English word " simar ", instead of the word " cassock ", for the garment with shoulder cape, which he treated as distinct from the cassock proper.

On the other hand, some Catholic leaders viewed Iglesia ni Cristo as an offshoot of the Roman Catholic Church, since the then first leader or Executive Minister ( Felix Ysagun Manalo ) was a former Catholic member.

St. Felix is the Catholic Parish in Felixstowe.

* 1970: In 1970 Ludmila Javorova attempted ordination as a Catholic priest in Czechoslovakia by a friend of her family, Bishop Felix Davidek ( 1921 – 88 ), himself clandestinely consecrated, due to the shortage of priests caused by communist persecution ; however, an official Vatican statement in February 2000 declared the ordinations invalid while recognizing the severe circumstances under which they occurred.

On the other hand, he incurred the strong opposition of the conservative and landed section of the Catholics, of some of the higher clergy like Cardinal Archbishop Felix von Hartmann of Cologne, and of the Bavarian agricultural interests as represented by the Bavarian Catholic People's Party in the State Diet at Munich and in the Reichstag in Berlin.

Recognizing the absence of a Catholic school system in Indonesia, four priests were dispatched to Indonesia: Bruder Engelbertus Cranen, Bruder Felix, Bruder Anthonius and Bruder Stanislaus.

The program frequently criticizes various denominations for their doctrines, practices and what it says are false teachings, including the Catholic Church, some Christian Denominations, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and especially the Iglesia ni Cristo, ( Church of Christ founded by Felix Manalo ), a Philippine-based religion.

* Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Felix of Nola

He ordered the church building to be given to the bishop who was " recognized by the bishops of Italy and of the city of Rome " ( Felix ).

* Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet ( approximate date )

* July 17 – Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet

Two letters of Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop of Pavia, survive addressed to him, written when the latter tried to regain horses and money he had lent the pope.

He was one of four fifth-to sixth-century Gallo-Roman aristocrats whose letters survive in quantity ; the others are Ruricius bishop of Limoges ( died 507 ), Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne ( died 518 ) and Magnus Felix Ennodius of Arles, bishop of Ticinum ( died 534 ).

" In the small part is power of the whole cross ", so an inscription in the Felix Basilica of Nola, built by bishop Paulinus at the beginning of 5th century.

During his archiepiscopate, he consecrated the first native English bishop of Rochester as well as helping the missionary efforts of Felix among the East Anglians.

Honorius may have consecrated Felix as the first bishop of East Anglia or Felix may have already have been consecrated on the continent.

As well as his help to Felix, Honorius consecrated the first Anglo-Saxon bishop, Ithamar of Rochester, and his successor was also a native of England.

There the nineteen bishops and twenty-four presbyters, mostly from Hispania Baetica and Carthago Nova, assembled, probably at the instigation of Hosius of Córdoba, but under the presidency of Felix of Accitum ( Guadix ) in Baetica, probably by virtue of his being the oldest bishop present, with a view to restoring order and discipline in the church.

He was ordained on 28 October 1901 by Michael Felix Korum, bishop of Trier.

Beyond Eugippius ' work, the only other contemporary source that mentions Saint Severinus is the Vita beati Antonii by Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop of Pavia.

According to statements made in 1995 and later, the underground bishop Felix Maria Davídek, who was a friend of her family, secretly ordained Javorová on December 28, 1970, during the early years of occupation of the country after the Prague Spring.

When bishop Maximus fled to the mountains to escape the persecution of the Roman emperor Decius, Felix was arrested and beaten for his faith instead.

After Maximus's death, the people wanted Felix to be the next bishop of Nola, but he declined, favoring Quintus, a " senior " priest who had seven days more experience than Felix.

A poem by St Paulinus of Nola allows a reconstruction of a mosaic apse he had ( as bishop ) commissioned in the basilica of St Felix of Nola at Cimitile in the early 5th century.