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Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...

Patrician Patrician may refer to: * Patrician (ancient Rome), the original aristocratic families of ancient Rome, and a synonym for "aristocratic" in modern English usage * Patrician (post-Roman Europe), the governing elites of cities in parts of medieval ...

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 ...

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Latium Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire. Definition Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil (Old Latium) on whi ...

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

Name

Sergius (name) Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Rome, Ancient Roman origin after the name of the Latins, Latin ''gens'' Gens Sergia, Sergia or Sergii of Roman Kingdom, regal and Roman Republic, republican ages. It is a common Christian name, in honor of S ...

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 wh ...

(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, 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, Patriarch 1001–1019 *

Patriarch Sergius I of Moscow Patriarch Sergius (russian: Патриарх Сергий; born Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky, Иван Николаевич Страгородский; – May 15, 1944) was the 12th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', from September 8, 194 ...

, Patriarch 1943–1944

Other Patriarchs

Sergius of Tella Sergius of Tella was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from c. 544 to c. 547 or c. 557 to 560. Biography Sergius was born at Tella, and was a friend of Jacob Baradaeus. He became a monk at the monastery of Hala, an ...

(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 Saint Sergius (died 304) was a Cappadocian monk who was martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian. His feast day is 24 February. Some saints lists say his relics were brought to the Spanish town of Úbeda; it is a mistake: Primus Cabilonensis, ...

(died 304), Martyred c. 304. *

Sergius of Radonezh Sergius of Radonezh (russian: Се́ргий Ра́донежский, ''Sergii Radonezhsky''; 14 May 1314 – 25 September 1392), also known as Sergiy Radonezhsky, Serge of Radonezh and Sergius of Moscow, was a spiritual leader and monastic ref ...

(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 Sergius I (died 864) was the first duke of Naples of his dynasty, often dubbed the "Sergi," which ruled over Naples for almost three centuries from his accession in 840 until the death of his namesake Sergius VII in 1137. Sergius was originally t ...

(died 864), Duke of Naples 840–864 *

Sergius II of Naples Sergius II was Duke of Naples from 870 to 877. He continued the policies of his father, Gregory III, and grandfather, Sergius I. He maintained good relations with the Franks or the Byzantines only as it suited Neapolitan interests. He was brief ...

, 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 Sergius V was the son and successor of John V as Duke of Naples from 1042 to 1082. In the summer of 1074, hostilities flared up between Richard I of Capua and Robert Guiscard. Sergius allied with the latter and made his city a supply centre for G ...

(died 1082), Duke of Naples 1042–1082 *

Sergius VI of Naples Sergius VI (died 1107) was the ''magister militum'' and duke of Naples from 1077 to his death. He was the son of the Neapolitan senator John, and succeeded his uncle, John's elder brother, Sergius V. His sister Inmilgia married Duke Landulf of Gaet ...

(died 1107), Duke of Naples 1082–1097 *

Sergius VII of Naples Sergius VII (died 30 October 1137) was the thirty-ninth and last dux, duke (or ''magister militum'') Duke of Naples, of Naples. He succeeded his father John VI of Naples, John VI on the Neapolitan throne in 1122 at a time when Roger II of Sicily wa ...

(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 Sergius II was the Patrician and Duke of Amalfi, the son and successor of John I, who co-reigned with his father until the latter's death in 1007. Sergius made his own eldest son John II co-duke, but both of them were deposed in 1028 by his wife ...

, Duke of Amalfi 1007–1028 *

Sergius III of Amalfi Sergius III (or IV) (died November 1073) was the duke of Amalfi from 1069, when he succeeded his father John II, until his death. He was first appointed co-regent by his father in 1031. He and his father were expelled from Amalfi by his grandmother ...

(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 Marcus Sergius was a Roman general during the Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC). He is famed in prosthetics circles as the first documented user of a prosthetic hand. The metal hand was constructed to allow him to hold his shield in battle. A ...

, Ancient Roman inventor of the prosthetic hand * Sergius Orata, Ancient Roman merchant and architect * Sergius (Byzantine general), 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, a ninth-century Paulician leader *

Metropolitan Sergius (Tikhomirov) of Japan Metropolitan Sergius (secular name Georgiy Alexeyevich Tikhomirov, russian: Георгий Алексеевич Тихомиров; June 16, 1871 – August 10, 1945) was a bishop of the Orthodox Eastern Church. He first served in Russia, but spen ...

, 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 Arch of the Sergii ( Croatian: ''Slavoluk Sergijevaca'') is an Ancient Roman triumphal arch located in Pula, Croatia. The arch commemorates three members of the Sergii family, specifically Lucius Sergius Lepidus, a tribune serving in the twenty-n ...

, an ancient Roman triumphal arch in Pula, Croatia *

Sergiopolis Resafa ( ar, الرصافة Reṣafa), also sometimes spelled Rusafa, and known in the Byzantine era as Sergiopolis (in greek Σεργιούπολις, Σεργιόπολις, "city of Saint Sergius") and briefly as Anastasiopolis (Αναστασ� ...

, the ancient city of Resafa, renamed for the Roman soldier Saint Sergius * Patriarch Sergius XVII, a fictitious character in ''Xenosaga''