St. Anicetus

1. St. Anicetus was a Syrian, and Pope of the Catholic Church from about 150 A.D to about 167 A.D.

2. He and St. Polycarp had some tension over when to celebrate the feast of Easter.  St. Polycarp and his church in Smyrna were celebrating on a different day.  The two disagreed, but St. Anicetus conceeded that St. Polycarp and his followers could continue to celebrate Easter as they were, although the next centuries would have intensified arguments about the date of Easter.

3.  St. Anicetus is one of the first popes to combat heresy; he forbade Montanism (a movement focused around prophecy and the movement of the Holy Spirit), as well as Gnosticism and Marcionism (dualistic belief which stated that the "angry" God of the Hebrew Bible and the loving God of the New Testament were two different gods).