Pope Sylvester I (died 31 December 335), whose name is also spelled
Silvester, was
pope from 31 January, 314 to his death in 335. He succeeded
Pope Miltiades. He filled the
See of Rome at an important era in the history of the
Catholic Church, yet very little is known of him. The accounts of his
papacy preserved in the
Liber Pontificalis (seventh or eighth century) contain little more than a record of the gifts said to have been conferred on the Church by
Constantine I, but it does say that he was the son of a Roman named
Rufinus.