<page_title> Papal tombs in old St. Peter's Basilica </page_title> <section_title> Papal tombs </section_title> <table> <cell> 440–461 <col_header> Pontificate </col_header> </cell> <cell> Leo I Saint Leo Leo the Great <col_header> Common English name </col_header> <row_header> 440–461 </row_header> </cell> <cell> Tomb located in portico. First pope buried on the porch of Old Saint Peter's Basilica; translated multiple times, combined with Leos II, III, and IV circa 855; removed in the seventeenth century and placed under his own altar, below Algardi's relief, Fuga d'Attila (pictured) in the Chapel of the Madonna of Partorienti. <col_header> Notes </col_header> <row_header> 440–461 </row_header> </cell> </table>
Pope Leo I (440–461) was the first pope buried in the basilica.