Titles to the Catholic Bishop, whoever he was, by way of Derision; or if the Bishop had assumed them in his Declaration, he took from thence Occasion to expose his Vanity and Ambition. _Baronius_, and the Flatterers of the Bishops of _Rome_, triumph in this Passage of _Tertullian_; from which however nothing can be inferred in Favour of that See, unless they prove, which they can never do, that the above-mentioned Declaration or Decree was published by the Bishop of _Rome_; that those Titles, which raise him above other Bishops, were Part of the Decree; and lastly, that _Tertullian_ mentioned them as due to him, and not by way of Sarcasm, ironically reflecting on his Pride and Ambition. As to the Actions of _Zephyrinus_, the Antients have left us quite in the Dark; and we cannot depend on what we read in the modern Writers. [Sidenote: Zephyrinus _not a Martyr_.] He governed about Seventeen Years, and died in the first Year of _Heliogabalus_, and 218. of the Christian Æra[304]. In the _Roman_ Martyrology he has a Place among the Martyrs, which puts _Baronius_ himself to a Stand[305], since the Church enjoyed a profound Tranquillity from the Death of _Severus_ to the End of his Pontificate. ----- Footnote 291: Euseb. l. 5. c. 28. Footnote 292: Opt. l. 1. c. 37. Footnote 293: Bar. ad ann. 196. n. 20. Footnote 294: Tert.in Prax. c. 1. p. 634. Footnote 295: Caten. Græc, Patr. c. 53. Footnote 296: Euseb. l. 6. c. 14. Footnote 297: Euseb. l. 6. c. 14. Hier. vir. ill. c. 59. Footnote 298: Idem ib. c. 20. Footnote 299: Idem, l. 3. c. 31. Footnote 300: Theod. hæret. fab. l. 3. c. 2. Footnote 301: Hier. vir. ill. c. 53. Footnote 302: Tert. de Pudic. c. 1. Footnote 303: Bar. ad ann. 216. n. 5, 6, &c. Footnote 304: Euseb. l. 6. c. 21. & chron. Footnote 305: Bar. ad ann. 221. n. 1, 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- HELIOGABALUS, CALLISTUS, ALEXANDER SEVERUS. _Fifteenth_ BISHOP _of_ Rome. [Sidenote: Year of Christ 219. ]