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 nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (plural: ''stirpes''). The ''gen ...

, 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 w ...

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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 ...

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

Name

Sergius (name) Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Roman origin after the name of the Latin ''gens'' Sergia or Sergii of regal and republican ages. It is a common Christian name, in honor of Saint Sergius, or in Russia, of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, an ...

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 w ...

(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 ...

(reigned died 847), Italian-born pope * Pope Sergius III (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 M ...

(reigned died 1012), Italian-born pope

Eastern Orthodox Patriarchs

* Sergius of Bulgaria, Patriarch of Bulgaria c. 931 – c. 940 * Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople, 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 (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 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 re ...

(1314–1392), 14th-century Russian monastic * Sergius of Valaam 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 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 brie ...

, Duke of Naples 870–877 * Sergius IV of Naples (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 (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 p ...

, proconsul of Cyprus, appears in the Book of Acts * Lucius Sergius Catilina (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 (died 536). Assyrian physician who translated medicine from Greek to Syriac * Sergius-Tychicus, a ninth-century Paulician leader * Metropolitan Sergius (Tikhomirov) of Japan, Russian Orthodox clergyman (1871–1945) * Bahira, 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, Mor ...

(born 1974), bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church

Other uses

*" Father Sergius", 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''