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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Silverius
		Silverius was consequently arrested in March, 537, roughly stripped of his episcopal dress, given the clothing of a monk and carried off to exile in the East.
		Silverius to return to Italy, and the latter soon entered the country, apparently at Naples.
		Silverius was taken to the Island of Palmaria in the Tyrrhenian Sea and kept their in close confinement.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13793a.htm (820 words)

	Pope Vigilius
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Pope_Vigilius.html (400 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Pope Silverius
		During Silverius' papacy, it was alleged that he had purchased his elevation to the see of St. Peter from King Theodahad.
		According to the Liber Pontificalis, Pope St. Silverius was exiled not to Ventotene, but rather to Palmarola, where he died a couple of months later, on June 20, 537.
		Pope Silverius was later beatified and made into a saint and is now the patron saint of the island of Ponza, Italy.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Pope_Silverius (449 words)

	Pope Silverius
		Silverius, pope (536 - 537), was a legitimate son of Pope Hormisdas, born before his father entered the priesthood.
		He was consecrated on June 8, 536, having purchased his elevation to the see of St. Peter from the Ostrogothic king Theodahad.
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Pope_Silverius.html (196 words)

	SAINT SILVERIUS, POPE AND MARTYR
		Silverius being then in her power, she endeavoured to win him over to her interest, and wrote to him, requiring that he would acknowledge Anthimus lawful bishop, or repair in person to Constantinople, and re-examine his cause on the spot.
		The good pope was sensible how dangerous a thing it was to oppose the favourite project of an empress of her violent temper; and said with a sigh, in reading her letter, that this affair would in the end cost him his life.
		The pope was accused of corresponding during the siege with the enemy ; and a letter was produced which was pretended to have been written by him to the King of the Goths, inviting him into the city, and promising to open the gates to him.
	www.jesus-passion.com /saint_silverius_pope_and_martyr.htm (1684 words)

	Can the Pope Retire?
		Pope St. Pontian was martyred in 236 (237), either from ill treatment in general or from a mortal beating.
		Pope Sylvester III was consecrated on Jan. 20, 1045.
		Pope Gregory XII (1406 - 1415) was elected as the legitimate pope at a time when there were two anti-popes: The Avignon Pope, Benedict XIII, who was supported by the French king; and the Pisa Pope, John XXIII, who was supported by conciliarists of the renegade Council of Pisa.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/religion/re0786.html (1221 words)

	ST. SILVERIUS
		Silverius, seeing that resistance was useless, advised surrender and on December 9, 536, the East Roman army filed through the Porta Asinaria to enter Rome in triumph.
		Silverius refused and on another visit to the Pincian Palace was seized, stripped of his pallium, and clothed in a monk's habit.
		Silverius was exiled to Patara in Lycia, but the bishop there wrote feelingly to Emperor Justinian that it was a shame to see the "pope who rules the Church through the world.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp58.htm (484 words)

	Pope Silverius
		Became pope by the will of King Theodahad, who wished to block Empress Theodora's choice of deacon Pope Vigilius (537-555), since he was from Constantinople.
		In 537.03, Silverius was deposed by the Byzantine general Belisarius, on charges of consorting with the enemy, Gothic king Vitigis, who's armies advanced to attack Rome.
		Silverius was reduced to the rank of a monk, and the deacon, Vigilius was setup pope.
	www.archelaos.com /popes/details.aspx?id=65 (140 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Vigilius
		Silverius was put into his keeping where the late pope soon died from the harsh treatment he received.
		Vigilius was recognized as pope by all the Roman clergy.
		Constantinople the pope was able, after coming to an understanding with the emperor, to start on his return to Rome in the spring of 555.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15427b.htm (1059 words)

	Pope Vigilius Summary
		Pope Vigilius, who reigned as pope from 537 to 555, was descended from a Roman family of distinction.
		Vigilius was chosen by Pope Boniface II as his successor, and presented to the clergy assembled in St.
		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.
	www.bookrags.com /Pope_Vigilius (2899 words)

	An Eastern Rite Pope As a Catalyst for Christian Unity
		Be that as it may, Silverius was the legitimate son of a married man, Hormisdas, who had served as the 52nd pope.
		Pope John Paul II had attempted the most serious endeavor in centuries -- perhaps the most intense effort since that of Hormisdas -- to reconcile, once again, the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, now separated since the 11th century.
		Pope John Paul authorized the ordination of married former Anglican and Protestant clergymen to the Roman Catholic priesthood as an incentive to their conversion.
	www.aina.org /news/20050418103020.htm (1127 words)

	The Straight Dope: Was there once a female pope?
		"Pope Joan," who supposedly served from 855 to 858, was said to be an Englishwoman who disguised herself as a monk to be with her cleric boyfriend.
		Pope John Paul II traveling around the globe reminding the faithful of the teachings of the Church is the most dramatic and common exercise of the Ordinary Magisterium today.
		It is prerequisite that the pope intend to demand irrevocable assent from the entire church in some aspect of faith or morals." The ordinary teachings of the Church, by contrast, are not infallible.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_139.html (1499 words)

	POPE SAINT SILVERIUS
		Silverius resided at the Lateran church beside the Asinarian Gate, and a letter was fabricated as evidence that he was in treacherous communication with the
		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.
		The profit, and consequently the guilt, of this simony, was imputed to Belisarius: but the hero obeyed the orders of his wife; Antonina served the passions of the empress; and Theodora lavished her treasures, in the vain hope of obtaining a pontiff hostile or indifferent to the council of Chalcedon.
	www.ponza.org /stsilverius.html (1045 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Sixth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Anthimus, Patriarch of Constantinople is exposed as a Monophysite heretic and is excommunicated and anathematized.
		Silverius refused and on another visit to the Pincian Palace was seized, stripped of his pallium,· and clothed in a monk's habit.
		Pope Vigilus excommunicates the Bishop of Constantinople, Menas.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/6cent.html (3247 words)

	Saint Silverius \| Catholic-Pages.com
		Saint Silverius, son of St. Hormisdas, was only a subdeacon when he was interjected into the Bishopric of the Church by the Ostrogothic king, Theoldehad in 536.
		Silverius refused politely, but she was a vile and unscupulous woman who did not take no as an answer from anyone.
		There on that island Pope Saint Silverius died from his sufferings and treatment, and is venerated as a martyr.
	www.catholic-pages.com /saints/st_silverius.asp (234 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : June 20, 2005 :
		Silverius was pope for a very short time in 546-7 A.D. But his brief pontificate made him a martyr for the truth, which he defended at the cost of his life.
		While Silverius was being consecrated in Rome, the emperor's wife Theodora was making her own plans to reinstate the Monophysite, Anthimus, as patriarch of Constantinople.
		Silverius was buried on the same island of his exile, his grave becoming the center of miraculous healings.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2005-06-20 (726 words)

	papal resignation
		On the other hand, Pope St. Silverius, who was consecrated pope on June 1, 536, was the first pope forcibly deposed.
		He was the nephew of Pope Benedict VIII (1012 — 1024) and Pope John XIX (1024 — 1032), and a member of one of the powerful families.
		Pope Gregory XII (1406 — 1415) was elected as the legitimate pope at a time when there were two anti-popes: The Avignon Pope, Benedict XIII, who was supported by the French king; and the Pisa Pope, John XXIII, who was supported by conciliarists of the renegade Council of Pisa.
	www.catholicherald.com /saunders/05ws/ws050303.htm (1229 words)

	Pope St. Silverius, Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the Day, June 20 TraditionInAction.org
		Agapitus died in 536 and Pope Silverius was chosen as his successor.
		By means of a forged letter, the Pope was accused of a treasonable agreement and behavior with the Gothic king besieging Rome.
		The Pope was kidnapped and exiled to the Island of Ponza in March 537.
	www.traditioninaction.org /SOD/j078sdSilverius6-20.htm (1124 words)

	Popes 501 - 600 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The African Church was reorganised, and the Pope elevated the status of Carthage's bishop to Patriarch.
		Although the Pope and his retinue were treated like conquering heroes, the Emperor could not be convinced to call off the invasion.
		When Pope Agapetus died in Constantinople, the Empress Theodora promised his aide, Vigilius, that she would "arrange" for him to become Pope if he would promise to reinstate Anthimus, a Monophysite heretic, to the Patriarchy of Constantinople.
	www.popesonparade.com /lists/600.html (2108 words)

	Saints of June 20
		The subdeacon Saint Silverius was son of Pope Saint Hormisdas, who had been married before his consecration and whose Formulation of Hormisdas helped to end the Monophysite schism of Acacius.
		The Byzantines naturally supposed that Silverius was a puppet of the Goths; an opinion that was reinforced when he denied Empress Theodora's request to acknowledge the Monophysites Anthimus as patriarch of Constantinople and Severus as patriarch of Antioch.
		Pope Saint Silverius is generally portrayed as a pilgrim pope with a small piece of bread on a plate.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0620.htm (1955 words)

	Of The Election Of The Pope; And Of Such As Have Usurped The Chair
		Among these are particularly numbered the two popes named, Felix, both of whom were exalted to papal dignity, and put in their office by Arian Kings, who ruled Italy, and consequently, also the city of Rome; the one by Constantius,* the other by Theodoric, both of whom belonged to the Arian sect.
		After the death of Pope Nicholas I (the 108th in the Register), information is obtained from Platina, according to the account of various other authors, relative to the condition of the Roman church at that time; namely, that she had no pope or head for eight years, seven months and nine days.
		Concerning the apostasy of Pope Anastasius II to the tenets of Achacius, bishop of Constantinople, and, consequently.
	www.homecomers.org /mirror/martyrs008.htm (4153 words)

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		Pope Gregory accepted, making this Vatican cardinal also a true cardinal "in pectore." The two of them proceeded to select a few reliable priests and secretly made them bishops, appointing them over new, larger dioceses, in the beginning consisting of entire continents.
		On May 16, 1989, the cardinal who had joined Pope Gregory in 1962 was elected pope by a conclave of himself and the remaining five of the six bishops Pope Gregory had made cardinals (the sixth had been killed in a car crash in 1982).
		His Holiness Pope Paschal III continues to reign gloriously to this day, though as of now (2005) his health grows rather weak and delicate, and it is not expected that he will live more than about two years or so.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/05Jun/jun2str.htm (1770 words)

	Saint Silverius - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		537, pope (536-37), an Italian; successor of St. Agapetus I. The son of Pope Hormisdas, who had been married before taking orders, St. Silverius was elected pope at the instance of the Ostrogothic king, Theodahad, although Vigilius, as Agapetus' deacon, was the logical candidate.
		Failing to win Silverius over to Monophysitism, Empress Theodora intrigued to make Vigilius pope.
		On a trumped-up charge of treason, Pope Silverius was sent into exile; Vigilius was declared pope, and Silverius died shortly afterward.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-silveriu.html (233 words)

	Pope Pelagius I
		Pelagius I, Roman Catholic Pope from 555 (consecrated in 556) to 561, was a Roman by birth, and first appears in history at Constantinople in the rank of deacon, and as apocrisiarius of Pope Silverius, whose overthrow in favor of Vigilius his intrigues promoted.
		Vigilius continued him in his diplomatic appointment, and he was sent by the emperor Justinian in 542 to Antioch on ecclesiastical business; he afterwards took part in the synod at Gaza which deposed Paul of Alexandria.
		Pelagius died on the 4th of March 561, and was succeeded by Pope John III.
	www.nndb.com /people/674/000097383 (330 words)

	The Character Of The Popes
		So long as Catholic doctrine teaches that the Pope represents Christ on earth, that as supreme Pastor full power was given to him by Jesus to rule, feed and govern the Church, then the personal characters of popes cannot be ignored.
		John XII became pope in 955 at 17 and was publicly noted for his debauchery, vice and wickedness.
		Among the ladies present was the pope's newest mistress, the notorious Guilia Farnese.
	www.antipas.org /books/papacy_in_history/pap_part2_1.html (807 words)

	Pope Vigilius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		June 7, 555) reigned as pope from 537-555.
		For after Vigilius had attained the object of his ambition and been made pope he maintained the same position as his predecessor against the Monophysites and the deposed Anthimus.
		Finally, Vigilius acknowledged in a letter of 8 Dec., 553, to the Patriarch Eutychius the decisions of the Second Council of Constantinople and declared his judgment in detail in a Constitution of 26 February, 554.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Vigilius (1306 words)

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