Pope Damasus
Damasus can refer to: * Pope Damasus I (330–384) or St. Damasus * Pope Damasus II (died 1048) * Damasus Scombrus, Greek orator from Tralles * ''Damasus'' (beetle), a genus of leaf beetle in the subfamily Eumolpinae * Damasus (canonist) (12th–13th centuries); see Bartholomew of Brescia * Damasus (mythology), a soldier on the Trojan side in the Trojan War * Damasus, king of Kourion on southern Cyprus in the 7th century BCE See also * Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...

Pope Damasus I
Pope Damasus I (; c. 305 – 11 December 384) was the bishop of Rome from October 366 to his death. He presided over the Council of Rome of 382 that determined the canon or official list of sacred scripture. He spoke out against major heresies (including Apollinarianism and Macedonianism) and thus solidifying the faith of the Catholic Church, and encouraged production of the Vulgate Bible with his support for Jerome. He helped reconcile the relations between the Church of Rome and the Church of Antioch, and encouraged the veneration of martyrs. As well as various prose letters and other pieces Damasus was the author of Latin verse. Alan Cameron describes his epitaph for a young girl called Projecta (of great interest to scholars as the Projecta Casket in the British Museum may have been made for her) as "a tissue of tags and clichés shakily strung together and barely squeezed into the meter". Damasus has been described as "the first society Pope", and was possibly a member o ...
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Pope Damasus II
Pope Damasus II (; died 9 August 1048, born Poppo de' Curagnoni) was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 17 July 1048 to his death on 9 August that same year. He was the second of the German pontiffs nominated by Emperor Henry III. A native of Bavaria, he was the third German to become pope and had one of the shortest papal reigns. Upon the death of Clement II, envoys from Rome were sent to the emperor to ascertain who should be named pope. Henry named the bishop of Brixen, Poppo de' Curagnoni. While the envoys were away, the former pope Benedict IX reasserted himself and with the assistance of the disaffected Margrave Boniface III of Tuscany once again assumed the papacy. Henry ordered Boniface to escort Poppo to Rome, but Boniface declined, pointing out that the Romans had already enthroned Benedict. Enraged, the emperor ordered the margrave to depose Benedict or suffer the consequences. Poppo became pope in mid-July but died less than a month la ...
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Damasus (beetle)
''Damasus albicans'' is a species of beetle in the leaf beetle family. It is the only member of the genus ''Damasus'', and was first described by the Belgian entomologist Félicien Chapuis in 1874. The species is distributed in Syria and Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with .... References {{taxonbar, from=Q62081562 Eumolpinae Beetles of Asia Insects of the Middle East Insects of Turkey Arthropods of Syria Taxa named by Félicien Chapuis Beetles described in 1874 ...
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Damasus (canonist)
Damasus can refer to: * Pope Damasus I (330–384) or St. Damasus * Pope Damasus II (died 1048) * Damasus Scombrus, Greek orator from Tralles * ''Damasus'' (beetle), a genus of leaf beetle in the subfamily Eumolpinae * Damasus (canonist) (12th–13th centuries); see Bartholomew of Brescia * Damasus (mythology), a soldier on the Trojan side in the Trojan War * Damasus, king of Kourion on southern Cyprus in the 7th century BCE See also * Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...