>>10070627Peter -> Linus
Among those to have been Pope, Peter, Linus, and Clement are specifically named in the New Testament.[1]
Linus is named in the valediction of the Second Epistle to Timothy as being with Paul the Apostle in Rome near the end of Paul's life.
The earliest witness to the episcopate of Linus was Irenaeus, who in c. AD 180 wrote that "the blessed apostles, then, having founded and built up the Church, committed into the hands of Linus
