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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Agapetus I
Agapetus was compelled to pledge the sacred vessels of the Church of Rome.
Pope arrived than the most prominent of the clergy entered charges against the new
Agapetus ordered him to make a written profession of faith and to return to his forsaken see; upon his refusal, he declined to have any relations with him.
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 Pope Vigilius Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Vigilius was chosen by Pope Boniface II as his successor, but the opposition to such a procedure led Boniface in the following year to withdraw his designation of a successor and to burn the decree respecting it.
Owing to the pressure exerted by the Byzantine commander, Vigilius was elected pope in place of Silverius and consecrated and enthroned on March 29, 537.
In both letters the pope supports positively the Synods of Ephesus and Chalcedon, and the decisions of his predecessor Pope Leo I, and throughout approves of the deposition of the Patriarch Anthimus.
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 Pope Silverius Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Silverius, pope (536 - 537), was a legitimate son of Pope Hormisdas, born before his father entered the priesthood.
He opposed the restoration of the patriarch of Constantinople Anthimus, whom Agapetus had deposed, and thus brought upon himself the hatred of empress Theodora, who also desired to see Vigilius made pope.
He was deposed accordingly by Belisarius in March 537 on a charge (not improbably well founded) of treasonable correspondence with the Goths, and degraded to the rank of a simple monk.
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 ST. AGAPETUS I
Agapetus was evidently one of the majority which had backed Dioscorus in the struggle against the appointed pope, Boniface II.
Agapetus is celebrated as a saint not only in the Roman but in the Greek calendar.
The old Pope was ailing and before he could return to Rome, he died at Constantinople on April 22, 536.
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 Pope Alexander VI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He was born at Xàtiva València Spain and his father's surname was Lanzol Llancol; that of his mother's family Borgia Borja was assumed by him on the of his maternal uncle to the papacy as Callixtus III (April 8 1455).
He served the Curia under five popes and acquired much experience influence and wealth although no great he was economical in his habits; on he displayed great splendour and lived in fine palace.
The city swarmed with Spanish assassins prostitutes and informers; murder and robbery committed with impunity heretics and Jews were admitted to the city on of bribes and the pope himself shamelessly aside all show of decorum living a secular and immoral life and indulging in chase dancing stage plays and indecent orgies.
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 Pope Agapetus II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pope Agapetus II CatholiCity - The Catholic Church Simplified
During his lifetime, his successor was virtually appointed in the person of Albericht's notorious son Octavian, later John XII, whose father forced the Romans to swear that they would elect him as their temporal and spiritual lord upon the demise of Agapetus.
The Pope died in August, 956, leaving an unsullied name, and was buried in St. John Lateran.
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 Pope Vigilius Summary
Vigilius was chosen by Pope Boniface II as his successor, and presented to the clergy assembled in St.
The second successor of Boniface, Pope Agapetus I (535-36), appointed Vigilius papal representative (Apocrisiary) at Constantinople; Vigilius thus came to the Eastern capital.
The pope was taken immediately to a ship that waited in the Tiber, in order to be carried to the eastern capital, while a part of the populace cursed the pope and threw stones at the ship.
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 History of the Popes
For the early popes the main written source is the "Liber Pontificalis." This account of the lives of the popes was begun probably early in the sixth century while the Ostrogoths ruled Italy.
This is one of several ordinances attributed to the early popes regarding the sacredness of the ceremonial vessels.
The pallium is a vestment of white wool which a pope wears as a symbol of the fullness of his apostolic power and an archbishop wears as a symbol of his participation in that power.
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 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Popes Through the Ages
The Pope was on guard to defend the purity of Christian doctrine.
Pope St. Felix is called a martyr by the "Liber Pontificalis," which also says that he built a basilica on the Aurelian Way in which he was buried.
Pope Sylvester sent two legates to represent him Vitus and Vincentius, and it seems that it was the Pope who suggested the term consubstantial to describe the relation of Christ's nature to the Father.
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 research for Political Philosophy - phatmass phorum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
During this period, the popes were under the influence of corrupt women (though not necessarily prostitutes), especially Theodora and her daughter, Marozia.
Pope John XII turned St. John Lateran into a brothel and was accused of adultery, fornication, and incest.
Pope Alexander VI kept many mistresses, and prostitutes were called to dance naked before the assembly, after which prizes were offered to those men who, in the opinion of the spectators, managed to copulate with the greatest number of prostitutes.
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 Pope Agapetus I
In 530, Antipope Dioscoro (530) had been elected as pope with a majority vote over Pope Boniface II (530-532), who had been unlawfully picked by Pope Felix IV (526-630) as his successor.
In 535, Pope Agapetus I ordered that the anathema be reverted, and had it burned in the presence of an assembled clergy.
However, Agapetus was successful in convincing Justinian I to succumb to the papal rule, and return Anthimus to his See in Trebizond.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Agapetus II
The temporal power had practically vanished and Rome was ruled by the vigorous Princeps and Senator Albericht, who was the prototype of the later
Agapetus were respected throughout the entire Christian world.
Pope died in August, 956, leaving an unsullied name, and was
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 Pope John II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pope John II Guajara in other languages: Spanish, Deutsch, French, Italian...
Pope John II John II, was pope (533 - 535.
His name at birth was Mercurius, and was the son of Projectus, born in Rome on the Caelian Hill.
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 Rachman J Siregar D - The Rule of the Harlots
During this period, the popes were influenced strongly by three major Roman families, the Theophylacts, the Alberics, and the Tusculans.
It is widely believed that Marozia was the concubine of Pope Sergius III and the mother of Pope John XI.
She was also accused of having had Pope John X (who had originally been nominated for office by Theodora) murdered in order to secure the election of her current favourite, Pope Leo VI.
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 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The son of a priest who was killed by supporters of antipope Lawrence in 502, Agapetus I was an archdeacon at the time of his election to the papacy in 535.
While in the eastern capital, Agapetus removed the monothelite patriarch, Anthimus, who had previously been bishop of Trebizond, by citing a canon that forbade the transfer of bishops.
Agapetus died in 536, and his body was brought from Constantinople to Rome for burial at St. Peter's.
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 Tarot.com :: Tarot, Astrology, Numerology & I-Ching
The Pope was also an important image for Dante and appears in a number of illustrations.
In Purgatorio Canto 32, Pope Clement V becomes the whore of Babylon in league with the giant (i.e., the French Monarchy) and has turned the Church into a seven-headed, 10-horned beast.
Thus, not only is the papacy condemned in the political layer of the poem, but the pope is identified with the Anti-Christ of Joachim's apocalyptic prophesies and the French monarchy with the temporal ally of the Anti-Christ (Emmerson 1981).
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 Jerry's Second Rebuttal in the Primacy Debate
The Byzantine Menologion commemorates Pope Agapetus as a saint on April 17.
While Pope St. Agapetus was in Constantinople in 536, at the request of Eastern clergy and monks, he deposed Anthimus and consecrated Menas as the new Patriarch of Constantinople.
Indeed Agapetus of holy memory, pope of Old Rome, giving him time for repentance until he should receive whatever the holy fathers defined, did not allow him to be called either a priest or a Catholic...
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 St. Pachomius Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Gregory's grandfather was Pope Felix III, and he is supposed to have been related to Pope Agapetus I as well.
In 572, Gregory was made the prefect of the city of Rome, a position he resigned in 574.
Pope St. Zachary I translated the Dialogues into Greek, ensuring that their influence would extend to the East.
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 POPE SAINT SILVERIUS
Silverius, pope (536 - 537), was a legitimate son of Pope
), probably leaving it to her ingenuity to concoct a plot against the Pope by means of a forged letter, she accused the pope of a treasonable agreement with the Gothic king who was besieging Rome.
On the proof or suspicion of treason, several senators were banished, and the pope Sylverius was summoned to attend the representative of his sovereign, at his head-quarters in the Pincian palace.
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 Agapetus II - LoveToKnow 1911
Great to intervene in Rome remained without immediate effect, since Alberic's position was too strong to be attacked, but it bore fruit after his death.
Agapetus died on the 8th of November 955.
This page was last modified 14:03, 24 Sep 2006.
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 The Fisherman’s Net: The Influence of the Papacy on History, by Michael Collins, Columbia Press, Dublin, Ireland, ...
Popes have been directly involved in setting up the Holy Roman Empire, the demise of paganism and global politics.
In the area of politics, Pope Alexander VI divided the map of the newly discovered territories of the Americas in the late fifteenth century.
However, he was not long retired from the world when Pope Pelagius asked him to leave the monastery and ordained him a deacon.
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 The Pope is a Chicken! - Pope Endurance League
When Felix III was elected pope, the antipope Felix II had not yet been removed from the official pope list.
In 1281, when newly elected pope Simon de Brie was choosing his new name, Marinus I and Marinus II were listed as Martin II and Martin III.
An antopope is just an individual who claims to be pope, but is not accepted by the catholic church.
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 Vigilius - Catholic Online
He was with Pope Agapetus I when the pope died in Constantinople, and Vigilius accompanied the leaden coffin Rome.
When Pope Silverius was accused of treason and imprisoned in 537, Vigilius was elected to succeed him.
In the controversy over the Three Chapters, Pope Vigilius took the position that the work alone deserved condemnation; the men who had written the chapters had died at peace with the church and should not be posthumously condemned.
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 Pelagius I - Catholic Online
In 536, he travelled with Pope Agapetus I to Constantinople, where he represented the see of Rome at a synod against the monophysites.
Pelagius supported Pope Vigilius's opposition to the emperor's condemnation of the authors of the Three Chapters and shared his exile.
Because church law forbids the pope to use force, Pelagius asked the exarch of Ravenna to repress schismatics.
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 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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The pope's temporal title since 1929 is Sovereign in the State of the
Disciple of Jesus from whom, according to Christian scripture, he received the keys to the kingdom of heaven.
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 hormisdas.html
upon the full acceptance of the theology in Pope St Leo's Tome.
The continual doctrinal orthodoxy of the See of Rome was affirmed as a fulfillment of
The first condition of salvation is to keep the norm of the true faith and in no way to
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 EarlyChurchHistory - page 147 of 166
Pope Leo responded further by excommunicating Dioscorus and calling for
holy Pope Agapetus who happened to be in Constantinople in February
Soon after, the Pope mysteriously died, most probably through the
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