Sergius was the name of a Roman Patrician

Gens In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same Roman naming conventions#Nomen, nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (p ...

, Sergia (or Sergii), originally from

Alba Longa Alba Longa (occasionally written Albalonga in Italian sources) was an ancient Latin city in Central Italy, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Rome, in the vicinity of Lake Albano in the Alban Hills. Founder and head of the Latin League, it was d ...

( Latium in central Italy). It is also found as Sergios. It may refer to:

Name

* Sergius (name) or Serge, a masculine given name

Roman Catholic Popes

Pope Sergius I Pope Sergius I (8 September 701) was the bishop of Rome from 15 December 687 to his death, and is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected at a time when two rivals, Paschal and Theodore, were locked in dispute about whic ...

(died 701), Italian-born pope *

Pope Sergius II Pope Sergius II ( la, Sergius II; died 27 January 847) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from January 844 to his death in 847. Sergius II's pontificate saw the Arab raid against Rome as well as the city's redevelopment. Rise B ...

(reigned died 847), Italian-born pope *

Pope Sergius III Pope Sergius III (c. 860 − 14 April 911) was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from 29 January 904 to his death. He was pope during a period of violence and disorder in central Italy, when warring aristocratic factions ...

(reigned 904–911), Italian-born pope *

Pope Sergius IV Pope Sergius IV (died 12 May 1012) was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from 31 July 1009 to his death. His temporal power was eclipsed by the patrician John Crescentius. Sergius IV may have called for the expulsion of Mu ...

(reigned died 1012), Italian-born pope

Eastern Orthodox Patriarchs

Sergius of Bulgaria Sergius ( bg, Сергий) was the third Bulgarian Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church The Bulgarian Orthodox Church ( bg, Българска православна църква, translit=Balgarska pravoslavna tsarkva), legally the Pa ...

, Patriarch of Bulgaria c. 931 – c. 940 *

Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople Sergius I ( el, Σέργιος Α΄, ''Sergios I'' ; d. 9 December 638 in Constantinople) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 610 to 638. He is most famous for promoting Monothelite Christianity, especially through the ''Ecthesi ...

, Patriarch 610–638 *

Patriarch Sergius II of Constantinople Sergius II ( el, Σέργιος Β′; ? – July 1019) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from July 1001 to 1019. According to the history of John Skylitzes, he was a relative of the celebrated 9th-century patriarch Photius. In 1001 ...

, Patriarch 1001–1019 * Patriarch Sergius I of Moscow, Patriarch 1943–1944

Other Patriarchs

* Sergius of Tella (died 546), Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch in 544–546

Other Christian Saints

* Saint Sergius (martyr), Roman soldier companion of Saint Bacchus, martyred c. 303. * Sergius of Cappadocia (died 304), Martyred c. 304. * Sergius of Radonezh (1314–1392), 14th-century Russian monastic *

Sergius of Valaam Saint Sergius of Valaam () was a Greek monk and wonderworker credited with bringing Orthodox Christianity to Karelian and Finnish people. Conflicting church traditions place him possibly as early as the 10th century or as late as the 14th. His f ...

Greek/Karelian/Russian monastic (Possible dates vary, from the 10th century to the mid-14th century)

Dukes of Naples

* Sergius I of Naples (died 864), Duke of Naples 840–864 * Sergius II of Naples, Duke of Naples 870–877 *

Sergius IV of Naples Sergius IV (died after 1036) was Duke of Naples from 1002 to 1036. He was one of the prime catalysts in the growth of Norman power in the Mezzogiorno in the first half of the eleventh century. He was nominally a Byzantine vassal, like his father ...

(died 1036), Duke of Naples 1002–1036 * Sergius V of Naples (died 1082), Duke of Naples 1042–1082 * Sergius VI of Naples (died 1107), Duke of Naples 1082–1097 * Sergius VII of Naples (died 1137), Duke of Naples 1120–1137, last Duke of Naples

Dukes of Amalfi

Sergius I of Amalfi Sergius I (died 966) was the second Duke of Amalfi and first of the Musco Comite family. In 958, Sergius, a citizen of the city of Amalfi, assassinated the first duke, Mastalus II and usurped the throne. In order to establish a ducal dynasty as in ...

(died 966), Duke of Amalfi 958–966 * Sergius II of Amalfi, Duke of Amalfi 1007–1028 * Sergius III of Amalfi (died 1073), Duke of Amalfi 1031–1073

Other persons

Sergius Paulus Lucius Sergius Paulus or Paullus was a Proconsul of Cyprus under Claudius (1st century AD). He appears in Acts 13:6-12, where in Paphos, Paul, accompanied by Barnabas and John Mark, overcame the attempts of Bar-Jesus ( Elymas) "to turn the procons ...

, proconsul of Cyprus, appears in the Book of Acts *

Lucius Sergius Catilina Lucius Sergius Catilina ( 108 BC – January 62 BC), known in English as Catiline (), was a Roman politician and soldier. He is best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to violently seize control of the R ...

(died 62 BC), 1st century BCE Roman politician * Marcus Sergius, Ancient Roman inventor of the prosthetic hand *

Sergius Orata Caius Sergius Orata ( fl. c. 95 BC) was an Ancient Roman who was a successful merchant, inventor and hydraulic engineer. He is credited with inventing the cultivation of oysters and refinement to the hypocaust method of heating a building to prov ...

, Ancient Roman merchant and architect *

Sergius (Byzantine general) Sergius was a Byzantine military officer who was active in Byzantine Africa during the reign of the emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565). The son of a priest named Bacchus, he was the brother of two Byzantine officers (Cyrus and Solomon) and nephe ...

, general under Justinian I *

Sergius of Reshaina Sergius of Reshaina (died 536) was a physician and priest during the 6th century. He is best known for translating medical works from Greek to Syriac, which were eventually, during the Abbasid Caliphate of the late 8th- & 9th century, translated int ...

(died 536). Assyrian physician who translated medicine from Greek to Syriac *

Sergius-Tychicus Sergius, also known as Tychicus (?–835), was a religious leader of the 9th century. In 801,Nina G. Garsoïan, ''The Paulician heresy: a study of the origin and development of Paulicianism in Armenia and the Eastern Provinces of the Byzantine empi ...

, a ninth-century Paulician leader * Metropolitan Sergius (Tikhomirov) of Japan, Russian Orthodox clergyman (1871–1945) *

Bahira Bahira ( ar, بَحِيرَىٰ, syc, ܒܚܝܪܐ) was an Assyrian, likely Nestorian monk from the tribe of Abd al-Qays who, according to Islamic religion, foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future as a prophet.Abel, A.Baḥīrā. '' Encyc ...

, also called Sergius (c 600), Nestorian monk who foretold Muhammad's prophetic career *

Sergius (Chashin) Metropolitan and Exarch Sergius of Singapore and South-East Asia (russian: Митрополит Сергий, secular name Nikolay Nikolayevich Chashin, russian: Николай Николаевич Чашин; born June 19, 1974, Komsomolsky, Mord ...

(born 1974), bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church

Other uses

Father Sergius "Father Sergius" (russian: Отец Сергий, Otets Sergiy) is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911.Julian Connolly in Charles A. Moser (ed.), ''The Cambridge History of Russian ...

", Short story by Leo Tolstoy ** ''Father Sergius'' (film), 1917 silent film by Yakov Protazanov based on Tolstoy's story ** ''Father Sergius'' (1978 film), a 1978 adaptation by Igor Talankin * Church of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus, a former Christian church, now a mosque, in Istanbul * Arch of the Sergii, an ancient Roman triumphal arch in Pula, Croatia * Sergiopolis, the ancient city of Resafa, renamed for the Roman soldier Saint Sergius * Patriarch Sergius XVII, a fictitious character in ''Xenosaga''