In 355 Constantius became the sole Emperor and extended his pro-Arian policy toward the western provinces, frequently using force to push through his creed, even exiling Pope Liberius and installing Antipope Felix II.

Antipope Felix II was installed as Pope in 355 after the Emperor Constantius II banished the reigning Pope, Liberius, for refusing to subscribe the sentence of condemnation against Saint Athanasius.

Great defenders of Trinitarian faith included the Popes, especially Pope Liberius, who was exiled to Berea by Constantius II for his Trinitarian faith, Damasus I, and several other bishops.

Damasus is known to have been raised in the service of the Basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls in Rome, and following the death of Pope Liberius, he succeeded to the papacy amidst factional violence.

When Pope Liberius was banished by Emperor Constantius II to Berea in 354, Damasus was archdeacon of the Roman church and followed Liberius into exile, though he immediately returned to Rome.

* October 1 – Pope Liberius dies after a 14-year reign and is succeeded by Damasus I as 37th pope.

* September 24 – Pope Liberius

* Pope Liberius refuses to sign a condemnation of Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria, imposed at Milan by Constantius II.

Pope Liberius repudiates the Arian creed and declares that the Council of Arminium had no authority to issue decrees.

Pope Liberius rejected the new creed at Rimini.

* Constantius II recalls Pope Liberius to Rome, where he receives a joyous welcome from the Christians.

He is succeeded by Pope Liberius as the 36th pope who immediately writes to Constantius II requesting a council at Aquileia to discuss the former Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who opposes the Arian belief to which the emperor subscribes.

Pope Liberius, pope from 17 May 352 to 24 September 366, was consecrated according to the Catalogus Liberianus on 22 May as the successor of Pope Julius I.

Pope Pius IX noted in Quartus Supra that Liberius was falsely accused by the Arians and he had refused to condemn St Athanasius.

In his encyclical Principi Apostolorum Petro, Pope Benedict XV noted that Pope Liberius went fearlessly into exile in defence of the orthodox faith.

* St Mary Major, also called the Liberian Basilica because the original building ( not the present one ) was attributed to Pope Liberius, is the largest church in Rome dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The foundation of the episcopal see dates from the 4th century: early martyrs of Spoleto are legends, but a letter to the bishop Caecilianus, from Pope Liberius in 354 constitutes its first historical mention.

* Pope Liberius ( died 366 ), European religious leader

The Blessed Virgin Mary overlooking Pope Liberius as the Pontiff scraped the foundation of the basilica with miracle of the snow.

It may be implied in what the Liber Pontificalis, of the early 13th century, says of Pope Liberius: " He built the basilica of his own name ( i. e. the Liberian Basilica ) near the Macellum of Livia ".

* 1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

As soon as he was elected in 1271, Pope Gregory received a letter from the Mongol Great Khan Kublai, remitted by Niccolo and Matteo Polo following their travels to his court in Mongolia.

After leaving the Venusberg, Tannhäuser is filled with remorse and travels to Rome to ask Pope Urban IV if it is possible to be absolved of his sins.

After leaving the Venusberg, Tannhäuser is filled with remorse, and travels to Rome to ask Pope Urban IV if it is possible to be absolved of his sins.

Pope John Paul II was known as the " pilgrim pope " for his travels.

'" In the sixth season episode, The Duh-Vinci Code, the cast travels to Rome ( announced as Future-Roma ), where the Space Pope directs the ship's landing at the Vatican.

His verse was deservedly praised by Dryden and Pope ; Milton was somewhat indebted to Sandys's Hymn to my Redeemer ( inserted in his travels at the place of his visit to the Holy Sepulchre ) in his Ode on the Passion.

A list of the nearly 700 books in his library is preserved in the Bodleian Library while architecture and related crafts made up the bulk of his books ; other subjects covered included: antiquities, coins, and heraldry ; histories of England, Scotland and Rome and other nations ; literature included works by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe and Matthew Prior ; travel books including Egypt, the South Seas, Russia, Hungary, Lapland, Virginia, Ceylon and Abyssinia, missionary travels included China, Formosa, Guinea, Borneo and the East Indies ; books on religion included both Anglican and Roman Catholic works ; and even cookery books.

He especially valued Pope John Paul II's activities in this respect: his travels and encounters with other religious leaders, his prayer meetings in Assisi and his confession of guilt for the church on the First Sunday of Lent in 2000.

During his 2001 travels, John Paul II became the first Pope to visit Greece in 1291 years.

During the 2002 travels between May 23-26, Pope John Paul II visited Bulgaria and met with the Bulgarian patriarch Maxim.

But most of her travels were with Pope John Paul II, most notably, his historic visit to Israel in 2000.

Throughout his travels, he had presented himself as a Muslim, for security ; in Florence he was requested by Pope Eugene IV, as a penance for his seeming apostasy, to relate his travels to the papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini.

Pope Paul VI — who created Joseph Ratzinger as a cardinal in 1977 — was often called the " Pilgrim Pope " for his ground-breaking travels to the Holy Land, India, the United States, Colombia, the Philippines, and elsewhere.

His extensive travels meant that he met many important people of the time including Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IX of France and Pope Innocent IV.

In 870 Pope Adrian II appointed the " Apostle of the Slavs " St. Methodius the Archbishop of Pannonia and Moravia at Sirmium, entrusting him large territories under the overlordship of the Salzburg diocese.

The Serbs were fully Christianized by 873, seen in the tradition of theophoric names ( e. g. Petar Gojniković, Pavle Branović ) and the fact that he maintained the communion with the Eastern Church ( Constantinople ) when Pope John VIII invited him to recognize the jurisdiction of the bishopric of Sirmium.

Pope Adrian II gave St. Methodius the title of Archbishop of Sirmium.

Carloman's forces also captured Methodius whom Pope Hadrian II had earlier appointed archbishop of Sirmium with jurisdiction over the realms ruled by Rastislav and Svatopluk.

In 869 Pope Hadrian II who had decided to revive the archdiocese of Illyricum consecrated Methodius archbishop of Sirmium ( Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia ) and papal legate of all the Slavs living in the territories ruled by Rastislav, Svatopluk and Pribina's son, Koceľ.