Talk:Lateran Baptistery

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Inaccurate: "This baptistry was for many generations the only baptistery in Rome"

The above statement has no citation, and is not accurate. The Lateran baptistery was probably not even the first in Rome, much less the only one for generations. Pope Damasus built (or possibly rebuilt) a baptistery in or near the old St. Peter's Basilica, and he was pope from 366-384 CE. See for example Christine Hunnikin-Smith, “POPE DAMASUS' BAPTISTERY IN ST. PETER'S RECONSIDERED * Rivista di archeologia cristiana, vol. 64, 1988 pp. 257-286.Msalt (talk) 16:16, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]