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	Pope Boniface III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boniface III was Pope from February 19 to November 12, 607.
		As a deacon Boniface had impressed Pope Gregory I, (also known as Gregory the Great), who described him as a man "of tried faith and character" and, in 603, selected him to be apocrisiarius (legate, essentially the papal nuncio) to the court of Constantinople.
		Boniface himself is thought to have insisted on the elections being free and fair and may have refused to take up the papacy until convinced that they had been.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Boniface_III (593 words)

	Pope Boniface II
		Boniface II was pope from 530 to 532.
		Boniface was chosen by his predecessor, Pope Felix IV, who had been a strong adherent of the Arian king.
		Boniface had for some time an antipope, Dioscurus, who had the support of most of the priests of Rome, but Dioscurus died only twenty-two days after his being chosen as antipope.
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	Pope Boniface IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boniface obtained leave from the Emperor Phocas to convert the Pantheon, Rome into a Christian Church, and on May 13, 609 (?) the temple erected by Agrippa to Jupiter the Avenger, to Venus, and to Mars was consecrated by the pope to the Virgin Mary and all the Martyrs.
		In it he tells the pope that he is charged with heresy for accepting the Fifth Ecumenical Council (the Second Council of Constantinople in 553), and exhorts him to summon a council and prove his orthodoxy.
		Boniface IV is commemorated as a saint in the Roman Martyrology on his feast day, 25 May.
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	BONIFACE II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Boniface, though a Roman himself, was the son of Sigisbald, a fact of some interest because it is the first German name connected with a pope.
		Boniface II approved of the decrees of the Second Council of Orange in Gaul, which condemned the Semi-Pelagian error.
		Boniface II was a very charitable man. He spent a great deal on the poor, especially when a famine threatened the city.
	www.cfpeople.org /books/pope/POPEp55.htm (420 words)

	Pope John II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John II, was pope from 533 - 535.
		He was the first pope to adopt a new name (regnal name) upon elevation to the papacy, as his birth name was the name of the Roman god Mercury.
		At the outset of his pontificate, John II secured from Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths in Italy, confirmation of the decree against simony (the purchase or sale of church offices or preferment) that had been issued by the Roman Senate.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Boniface II
		Boniface reconciled many by his mild, conciliatory administration; but some resentment remained, for he seems not to have been tendered a formal election by those who, despite their submission, had impugned the validly of his nomination; and five years later a pope of their choice solemnly burned the anathema against Dioscorus.
		Boniface proposed as his choice the deacon Vigilius and it was ratified by priests and.
		Boniface was esteemed for his charity, particularly towards the suffering poor of Rome during a year of famine.
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	Pope Vigilius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 Paul VI The World Pays Its Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pope Honorius I was not only condemned by the Council of Constantinople in 681 because he "followed the wicked teaching of the heretics" but the acts of the Council were signed by the papal legate and duly authenticated by Pope Leo II.
		Pope Paul VI constantly sought to promote and deepen mutual understanding among the churches; this was evinced by his great enthusiasm for the establishment of a Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches.
		Pope Paul VI understood his ministry as an instrument in the service of peace in the world and indefatigably recalled the duty of the church and indeed of every member of the church to contribute to overcoming the menace of war.
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	Encyclopedia: Pope Boniface II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches.
		Events September 22 - Pope Boniface II is elected to succeed Pope Felix IV December 15 - Justinian selects a second commission to excerpt and codify the writings of the jurists on Roman Law.
		Felix IV was Pope from 526 to 530.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pope-Boniface-II (372 words)

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		The reason Popes began choosing a Papal name was because when a man named Mercurius was elected Pope it was considered unacceptable for a vicar of Jesus Christ to bear the name of a Pagan God, and so he chose the name John.
		Pope John Paul II was the first non Italian to lead the Church in 455 years.
		Pope Boniface II was the first Pope with German heritage (although not born in Germany).
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		Pope Boniface II approved of the Decrees of the Second Synod of Orange in Gaul, which condemned the semi-Pelagian error.
		Anthimus, Patriarch of Constantinople is exposed as a Monophysite heretic and is excommunicated and anathematized.
		Pope Vigilus excommunicates the Bishop of Constantinople, Menas.
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	FELIX - LoveToKnow Article on FELIX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		FELIX III., pope, was descended from one of the most influential families of Rome, and was a direct ancestor of Gregory the Great.
		FELIX IV., pope, a native of Beneventum, was, on the death of John in 526, raised to the papal chair by the emperor Theodoric in opposition to the wishes of the clergy and people.
		In early manhood he became a hermit in the forest of Galeresse, where he remained till his sixty-first year, when his disciple Jean de Matha (1160-^1213) suggested to him the idea of establishing an order of monks who should devote their lives to the redemption of Christian captives from the Saracens.
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	ST. AGAPETUS I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The son of a priest who had been killed in the stormy days of Pope Symmachus, he was archdeacon of the Roman clergy when elected.
		The Pope was more successful in his effort to check Monophysite designs on the Church of Constantinople.
		The old Pope was ailing and before he could return to Rome, he died at Constantinople on April 22, 536.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp57.htm (502 words)

	The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. II: Basilica - Chambers (boniface)
		Boniface died Sept. 4, 422, and is reckoned among the saints of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Even before his consecration, the new pope asserted his prerogatives by revoking many appointments of his two predecessors, deposing archbishops and bishops appointed by Celestine without the consent of the cardinals, and leaving Naples for Rome with all his court, in spite of the efforts of Charles II to detain him there.
		Boniface took a lofty tone with Albert, summoning him to appear within six months and submit his claims to the throne, since it belonged to the pope to examine the person chosen king of the Romans, and reject him if unsuitable.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc02.boniface.html (4745 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Boniface VIII
		Boniface now withdrew from Rome to Orvieto, where, on the 4th of September, 1297, he declared war and entrusted the command of the pontifical troops to Landolfo Colonna, a brother of Jacopo.
		He was one of the most distinguished canonists of his age, and as pope enriched the general ecclesiastical legislation by the promulgation ("Sacrosanctæ", 1298) of a large number of his own constitutions and of those of his predecessors, since 1234, when Gregory IX promulgated his five books of Decretals.
		Gröne, a German Catholic historian of the popes, says of Boniface (II, 164) that while his utterances equal in importance those of Gregory VII and Innocent III, the latter were always more ready to act, Boniface to discourse; they relied on the Divine strength of their office, Boniface on the cleverness of his canonical deductions.
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	Boniface II (530-532) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This Boniface was the son of Sigisbald, a German.
		Boniface II fighted the still existing Pelagian herisy and helped to reorganize the Church in Africa after the Vandal invasions.
		Boniface renounced the usance to appoint a successor.
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	Pope Boniface II -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Boniface II was (The head of the Roman Catholic Church) Pope from (Click link for more info and facts about 530) 530 to (Click link for more info and facts about 532) 532.
		He was by birth an (A member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD) Ostrogoth, the first German chosen to be Pope, and he owed his election to the influence of the Gothic king (Click link for more info and facts about Athalaric) Athalaric.
		Boniface was chosen by his predecessor, (Click link for more info and facts about Pope Felix IV) Pope Felix IV, who had been a strong adherent of the (Click link for more info and facts about Arian) Arian king.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/pope_boniface_ii1.htm (134 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pope John II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Encyclopedia: Pope John II Updated 119 days 2 hours 51 minutes ago.
		The Book of the Popes or the Liber Pontificalis is a major source for early medieval history and one that has received intense critical scrutiny.
		Agapetus I, or Agapitus I, pope (535 - 536), was the son of Gordian, a priest who had been slain during the riots in the days of Pope Symmachus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pope-John-II (667 words)

	Boniface II -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Boniface set the church in Germany on a firm course of undeviating piety and irreproachable conduct.
		The papacy of Boniface VIII (1294–1303) came at an unfortunate time when the nation-states of Europe, particularly France and England, were emerging as powerful political forces.
		The pope was convinced that the church ought to be the supreme power in Europe politically as well as spiritually.
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	ipedia.com: Pope John II Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pope John II John II, was pope (533 - 535.
		He was the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
		At the outset of his pontificate, John II secured from Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths in Italy, confirmation of the decree against simony (the purchace or sale of church offices or preferment) that had been issued by the Roman Senate.
	www.ipedia.com /pope_john_ii.html (207 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Boniface III
		Pope Boniface III, of Roman extraction and the son of John Cataadioce, was elected to succeed Sabinian after an interregnum of nearly a year; he was consecrated 19 February, 607; d.
		He had been ordained a deacon of the Roman Church, and in 603 sent by Gregory the Great as apocrisiarius, or legate, to the court of Constantinople, where, by his tact and prudence, he appears to have gained the favourable regard of the Emperor Phocas.
		Pope Boniface was a man "of tried faith and character" (St. Greg., ep.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02660b.htm (244 words)

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		Elected to succeed Leo II in 683, his consecration was delayed almost a year until June 26, 684, awaiting the emperor's confirmation.
		Boniface was possibly a Benedictine monk of Saint Sebastian in Rome and became a dispensator when he entered papal service.
		He was elected pope in 608, was responsible for converting the Roman temple of the gods, the Pantheon in Rome, into a Christian church dedicated to Our Lady and all the saints.
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	Pope Gregory II Commends Boniface to the Leaders of Thuringia (December 722) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pope Gregory II Commends Boniface to the Leaders of Thuringia (December 722)
		Pope Gregory to his distinguished sons Asulf, Godolaus, Wilareus, Gundhar, Alvold and all the faithful of Thuringia who are beloved of God.
		We pray also that as far as the work of our holy religion requires, you will seek consolation from this Holy Apostolic See, who is the spiritual mother of all believers, for as you are her sons and joint heirs of a kingdom that has a royal Father it is fitting that you do so.
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	Pope Boniface II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	September 22 DAILY CATHOLIC TEXT Section Two (sep22tx2.htm)
		It was Boniface who had the monastery of Monte Cassino built on a temple of Apollo, an edifice that stood until being bombed by Ally planes in World War II.
		The visit by Pope John Paul coincided with the closing of ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of Pope Paul's birth.
		While in Brescia the Holy Father also presided at the beatification of Giuseppe Tovini, a lay Catholic activist and "the father of an affectionate family." A man deeply devoted to Catholic social doctrine, he was the founder of Banco Ambrosiano, and worked constantly for social justice until his death in 1897.
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	Boniface -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Boniface either died of gout or was murdered by Stephen VI, who became the next pope.
		A central figure during a dark period in papal history (896–898) revolving around the death of Pope Formosus, Boniface was denounced at a Roman council held by Pope John IX in 898.
		Her novels are often set in her hometown of St. Boniface, Montreal, or the wilderness of northern Canada.
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	BONIFACE II - Online Information article about BONIFACE II
		pope from 530 to 532, was by See also:
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		Boniface endeavoured to nominate his own successor, thus transforming into See also:
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	Liber Pontificalis, Part One
		The most ancient of the biographies have a specific form to them, detailing the birthplace of the pope, length of his reign, major civil events, donations of land or money, major building projects or renovations, significant church and public affairs, the number of major ordinations, and where the pope was buried.
		In the Middle Ages, it was believed that St. Jerome was the author of the biographies under Pope Damasus, because of supposed correspondence between the two which implied that Damasus requested that St. Jerome write the biographies.
		Callistus I, St. (217-222) During his rather short papacy, Callistus was easily one of the most controversial popes of the early Church, however, any of the controversy that is known is due to the writings by the antipope, St. Hippolytus.
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