Evaristus pope

The Liber pontificalis calls him the son of a Jew of Bethlehem settled in Antioch, and gives him a pontificate of about ten years under Trajan; Eusebius, earlier, counts eight. He is credited with dividing Rome among titles each entrusted to a priest — the ancestor of the parish — but that notice has no source other than the Liber pontificalis, four centuries later, and the titles are a fourth-century institution. Neither Eusebius, nor the Roman list of martyrs of 354, nor the present Martyrology gives him the title of martyr that tradition nonetheless accords him.