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ARTICLES RELATED TO Pope Vigilius | | | |  Pope Vigilius: Encyclopedia - Pope VigiliusThis article incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia.
Reigned 537-555, date of birth unknown; died at Syracuse, 7 June 555. He belonged to a distinguished Roman family; his father Johannes is called consul in the Liber pontificalis (ed. Duchesne, I, 298), having received that title from the emperor. Reparatus, a brother of Vigilius, was a senator (Procopius, De bello gothico, I, 26). Vigilius entered the service of the Roman Church and was a deacon in 531, in which year the Roman cler ...
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| | | | Pope Vigilius: Encyclopedia II - Three-Chapter Controversy - The subscription The leading Eastern bishops were coerced, after a short resistance, into subscribing. Mennas, Patriarch of Constantinople, first protested that to sign was to condemn the Council of Chalcedon, and then yielded, as he told Stephen the Roman apocrisarius at Constantinople, that his subscription should be returned to him if the Pope disapproved of it. Stephen and Dacius, Bishop of Milan, who was then at Constantinople, broke off communion with him. Zoilus the Patriarch of Alexandria, Ephraim the Patriarch of Antioch, and Peter the Patriarch of ...
See also:Three-Chapter Controversy, Three-Chapter Controversy - Background, Three-Chapter Controversy - The subscription, Three-Chapter Controversy - The schism in the West, Three-Chapter Controversy - Its effect in the East, Three-Chapter Controversy - Its later effect Read more here: » Three-Chapter Controversy: Encyclopedia II - Three-Chapter Controversy - The subscription |
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| | | | Pope Vigilius: Encyclopedia II - Three-Chapter Controversy - Background At a very early stage of the controversy the incriminated writings themselves came to be spoken of as the "Three Chapters". In consequence those who refused to anathematize these writings were said to defend the Three Chapters, and accused of professing Nestorianism; and, vice versa, those who anathematized them, to condemn the Three Chapters, and likewise heretical.
At the end of 543 or the beginning of 544 the Emperor Justinian I issued an edict in which the three works were anathematized, in hope of encouraging the Monophysites to ...
See also:Three-Chapter Controversy, Three-Chapter Controversy - Background, Three-Chapter Controversy - The subscription, Three-Chapter Controversy - The schism in the West, Three-Chapter Controversy - Its effect in the East, Three-Chapter Controversy - Its later effect Read more here: » Three-Chapter Controversy: Encyclopedia II - Three-Chapter Controversy - Background |
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| | | | Pope Vigilius: Encyclopedia II - Three-Chapter Controversy - The schism in the West The bishops of Aquileia, Milan, and of the Istrian peninsula all refused to condemn the Three Chapters, and excommunicated the Popes for their subscription. Since these bishops were subjects of the Lombards, they were beyond the reach of both the Pope and the Exarch at Ravenna, and maintained their dissent into the 7th century. The see of Milan renewed communion with Rome when its bishop Fronto died about 581. As he had fled from the Lombards to refuge at Genoa, his successor was dependent upon the Byzan ...
See also:Three-Chapter Controversy, Three-Chapter Controversy - Background, Three-Chapter Controversy - The subscription, Three-Chapter Controversy - The schism in the West, Three-Chapter Controversy - Its effect in the East, Three-Chapter Controversy - Its later effect Read more here: » Three-Chapter Controversy: Encyclopedia II - Three-Chapter Controversy - The schism in the West |
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