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Pope Sixtus I
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Pope Sixtus I

Roman Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born c. AD 42 · died 120s
Also known as Sixtus I, Sextus, Xystus I

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Sixtus I?

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Born during Pope Sixtus I’s lifetime: Tacitus, Ptolemy, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Pliny the Younger, Domitian and Antoninus Pius.

Not quite contemporaries: Tiberius died about 2 years before Pope Sixtus I was born, Strabo died about 15 years before Pope Sixtus I was born, Didius Julianus was born about 3 years after Pope Sixtus I died and Lucius Verus was born about a year after Pope Sixtus I died.

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Where Pope Sixtus I’s contemporaries were born

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The 69 best-known contemporaries

69 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Sixtus I. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 82.

  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  4. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  5. Ptolemy c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  6. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  9. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  10. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  11. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  12. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  13. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  14. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  15. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  16. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  17. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  18. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  19. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  20. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  21. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  22. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  23. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  24. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  25. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  26. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  27. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  28. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  29. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  30. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  31. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  32. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  33. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  34. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  35. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  36. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  37. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  38. Pausanias c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  39. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  40. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  41. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  42. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  43. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  44. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  45. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  46. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  47. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  48. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  49. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  50. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  51. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  52. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  53. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  54. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  55. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  56. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  57. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  58. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  59. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  60. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  61. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  62. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  63. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  64. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  65. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  66. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  67. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  68. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  69. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177