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The best historians of literature in the ancient church, including [[Eusebius|Eusebius of Caesarea]] and [[Jerome]], openly confess they cannot name where Hippolytus served in leadership. They had read his works but did not possess evidence of his community. Photios I of Constantinople describes him in his ''Bibliotheca'' (codex 121) as a disciple of St. Irenæus. Oriental writers, as well as Pope Gelasius, place the See of Hippolytus at Bostra, the chief city of the Arabs.

The best historians of literature in the ancient church, including [[Eusebius|Eusebius of Caesarea]] and [[Jerome]], openly confess they cannot name where Hippolytus served in leadership. They had read his works but did not possess evidence of his community. Photios I of Constantinople describes him in his ''Bibliotheca'' (codex 121) as a disciple of St. Irenæus. Oriental writers, as well as Pope Gelasius, place the See of Hippolytus at Bostra, the chief city of the Arabs.

Suggested communities include Palestine, Egypt, Anatolia, Rome and regions of the mideast. He was also noted to be a bishop of an unspecified city by Eusebius of Caesarea and Jerome and by the poet Prudentius as bishop of Portus, a port for Rome. (Prudentius may have confused him with another [[Hippolytus, bishop and martyr|Hippolytus, bishop of Pontos, and martyr]] of the third century.)

Suggested communities include Palestine, Egypt, Anatolia, Rome and regions of the mideast. He was also noted to be a bishop of an unspecified city by Eusebius of Caesarea and Jerome and by the poet Prudentius as bishop of Portus, a port for Rome. (Prudentius may have confused him with another [[Hippolytus of Ponto, bishop and martyr|Hippolytus, bishop of Pontos, and martyr]] of the third century.)

Until the publication in 1851 of the recently discovered "Philosophumena", a part of his larger work "Refutation of All Heresies", it was impossible to obtain any definite authentic facts concerning Hippolytus of Rome and his life from the conflicting statements about him, as follows:  

Until the publication in 1851 of the recently discovered "Philosophumena", a part of his larger work "Refutation of All Heresies", it was impossible to obtain any definite authentic facts concerning Hippolytus of Rome and his life from the conflicting statements about him, as follows: