Question: Why did Irenaeus become bishop of Lyons instead of Pothinus? Select one: a. Ninety-year-old Pothinus died after Roman persecutors beat him for two days. b. Forty-year-old Pothinus was deposed for immorality with a servant girl. c. Sixty-year-old Pothinus was deposed for teaching Gnostic heresy. d. Fifty-year-old Pothinus renounced Christ when threatened with death. e. Eighty-year-old Pothinus retired after appointing Irenaeus to replace him.