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| Birth name | Zosimus |
| Papacy began | March 18, 417 |
| Papacy ended | December 26, 418 |
| Predecessor | Innocent I |
| Successor | Boniface I |
| Born | ??? ??? |
| Died | December 26, 418 ??? |
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| Reference style | His Holiness |
| Spoken style | Your Holiness |
| Religious style | Holy Father |
| Posthumous style | Saint |
- For the historian, see Zosimus. Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor For the Assault rifle see Heckler & Koch HK417. Events By Place Western Roman Empire Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Events By place Roman Empire Foundation of the Visigothic Kingdom, Roman Emperor Honorius rewarded his Pope Pope Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Events By place Roman Empire Foundation of the Visigothic Kingdom, Roman Emperor Honorius rewarded his A style of office, or honorific, is a term which by Tradition or Law precedes a reference to a person who holds a post or Title, or to the A saint (from the Latin sanctus) is a human being to whom has been attributed (and who has generally demonstrated a high level of Holiness and Sanctity Zosimus ( ''fl'' 490s-510s was a Byzantine historian who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius
Pope Saint Zosimus was pope from March 18, 417 to December 26, 418. History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor For the Assault rifle see Heckler & Koch HK417. Events By Place Western Roman Empire Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Events By place Roman Empire Foundation of the Visigothic Kingdom, Roman Emperor Honorius rewarded his
He succeeded Innocent I, and was followed by Boniface I. Pope Pope Zosimus took a decided part in the protracted dispute in Gaul as to the jurisdiction of the see of Arles over that of Vienne, giving energetic decisions in favour of the former, but without settling the controversy. Gaul (Gallia was the Roman name for the region of Western Europe comprising present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western The former French Catholic Archbishopric of Arles had its episcopal see in the city of Arles, in southern France. This article is about the French department Do not confuse with the Austrian capital Vienna. His fractious temper coloured all the controversies in which he took part, in Gaul, Africa and Italy, including Rome, where at his death the clergy were very much divided. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2
According to the Liber Pontificalis, Zosimus was a Greek and his father's name was Abram. The Liber Pontificalis ( Latin for Book of the Popes) is a book of biographies of Popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Some scholars deduce from this that the family was of Jewish origin, but this cannot be certain.
Nothing is known of the life of Zosimus before his elevation to the papal see. His consecration as Bishop of Rome took place on March 18, 417. A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor For the Assault rifle see Heckler & Koch HK417. Events By Place Western Roman Empire The festival was attended by Patroclus, Bishop of Arles, who had been raised to that see in place of Bishop Hero, who had been forcibly and unjustly removed by the imperial general Constantine. In Greek mythology, as recorded in the Iliad by Homer, Patroclus, or Patroklos (Gr The former French Catholic Archbishopric of Arles had its episcopal see in the city of Arles, in southern France. A hero (from Greek grc ἥρως hērōs) in Greek mythology and Folklore, was originally a Demigod, the offspring of a mortal and Patroclus gained the confidence of the new pope at once; as early as 22 March he received a papal letter which conferred upon him the rights of a metropolitan over all the bishops of the Gallic provinces of Viennensis and Narbonensis I and II. Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. In Hierarchical Christian churches the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the Diocesan bishop or Gallia Narbonensis ( Narbonese Gaul) was a Roman province located in what is now Languedoc and Provence, in southern France. In addition he was made a kind of papal vicar for the whole of Gaul; no Gallic ecclesiastic being permitted to journey to Rome without bringing with him a certificate of identity from Patroclus. In the broadest sense a vicar (from the Latin Vicarius) is a representative anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior
In the year 400, Arles had been substituted for Trier as the residence of the chief government official of the civil Diocese of Gaul, the "Prefectus Praetorio Galliarum". Events By Place Western Roman Empire Italy is first invaded by Alaric (probable date Trier (Trèves Luxembourgish: Tréier; Augusta Treverorum is a City in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. A Roman or civil diocese ( Latin: dioecesis, from the διοίκησις, "administration" was one of the administrative divisions The Diocese of Gaul ( Latin: Dioecesis Galliarum, "diocese of the Gaul s" was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, under the Praetorian Patroclus, who enjoyed the support of the commander Constantine, used this opportunity to procure for himself the position of supremacy above mentioned, by winning over Zosimus to his ideas. The bishops of Vienne, Narbonne and Marseille regarded this elevation of the See of Arles as an infringement of their rights, and raised objections which occasioned several letters from Zosimus. This article is about the French department Do not confuse with the Austrian capital Vienna. Narbonne ( Narbona in Catalan and in Occitan, the Roman Narbo) is a commune in southwestern France in the Marseille, ( English alt Marseilles mɑrˈseɪ — French: maʁsɛj locally — Provençal Occitan: Marselha maʀˈsijɔ The dispute, however, was not settled until the pontificate of Pope Leo I. Pope Saint Leo I or Pope Saint Leo the Great was Pope from September 29, 440 to November 10, 461.
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Confrontation with Pelagianism
Not long after the election of Zosimus the proponent of Pelagianism, Caelestius, who had been condemned by the preceding pope, Innocent I, came to Rome to justify himself before the new pope, having been expelled from Constantinople. Pelagianism is a theological theory named after Pelagius (ad 354 – ad Caelestius (or Celestius was the major follower of the Christian teacher Pelagius and the Christian Doctrine of Pelagianism, which Pope Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis, or gr ἡ Πόλις hē Polis, Latin: la CONSTANTINOPOLIS In the summer of 417, Zosimus held a meeting of the Roman clergy in the Basilica of St. Clement before which Caelestius appeared. For the Assault rifle see Heckler & Koch HK417. Events By Place Western Roman Empire The Basilica of Saint Clement ( Basilica di San Clemente in Italian) Rome is a twelfth century Roman Catholic Basilica dedicated The propositions drawn up by the deacon Paulinus of Milan, on account of which Caelestius had been condemned at Carthage in 411, were laid before him. Paulinus the Deacon was the notary of Ambrose of Milan, and his biographer Carthage (Καρχηδών Karkhēdōn, Carthago from the Phoenician קרת חדשת phn-Latn Qart-ḥadašt meaning new town) refers Events By Place Western Roman Empire The Burgundians and the Alans elevate the usurper Jovinus Caelestius refused to condemn these propositions, at the same time declaring in general that he accepted the doctrine expounded in the letters of Pope Innocent and making a confession of faith which was approved. The pope was won over by the shrewdly calculated conduct of Caelestius, and said that it was not certain whether the heretic had really maintained the false doctrine rejected by Innocent, and that therefore he considered the action of the African bishops against Caelestius too hasty. He wrote at once in this sense to the bishops of the African province, and called upon those who had anything to bring against Caelestius to appear at Rome within two months. Soon after this Zosimus received from Pelagius also an artfully expressed confession of faith, together with a new treatise by the heretic on free will. Pelagius (ca 354 &ndash ca 420/440 was an ascetic monk who denied the doctrine of Original sin, later developed by Augustine of Hippo, and The question of free will The pope held a new synod of the Roman clergy, before which both these writings were read. The skillfully chosen expressions of Pelagius concealed the heretical contents; the assembly held the statements to be orthodox, and Zosimus again wrote to the African bishops defending Pelagius and reproving his accusers, among whom were the Gallic bishops Hero and Lazarus. Archbishop Aurelius of Carthage quickly called a synod, which sent a letter to Zosimus in which it was proved that the pope had been deceived by the heretics. Saint Aurelius was Christian Saint who died around 430 He was a Bishop of Carthage from ca In his answer Zosimus declared that he had settled nothing definitely, and wished to settle nothing without consulting the African bishops. After the new synodal letter of the African council of May 1, 418 to the pope, and after the steps taken by the emperor Honorius against the Pelagians, Zosimus recognized the true character of the heretics. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Events By place Roman Empire Foundation of the Visigothic Kingdom, Roman Emperor Honorius rewarded his Flavius Honorius ( September 9, 384 &ndash August 15, 423) was Roman Emperor (393- 395 and then Western Roman Emperor He now issued his Tractoria, in which Pelagianism and its authors were finally condemned.
Shortly after this Zosimus became involved in a dispute with the African bishops in regard to the right of appeal to the Roman See clerics who had been condemned by their bishops. When the priest Apiarius of Sicca had been excommunicated by his bishop on account of his crimes, he appealed directly to the pope, without regard to the regular course of appeal in Africa which was exactly prescribed. The pope at once accepted the appeal, and sent legates with letters to Africa to investigate the matter. A wiser course would have been to have first referred Apiarius to the ordinary course of appeal in Africa itself. Zosimus next made the further mistake of basing his action on a reputed canon of the First Council of Nicaea, which was in reality a canon of the Council of Sardica. The First Council of Nicaea, held in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) convoked by the Roman Emperor Constantine The Council of Sardica was one of the series of councils (or Synods called to adjust the doctrinal and other difficulties of the Arian controversy, held most probably In the Roman manuscripts the canons of Sardica followed those of Nicaea immediately, without an independent title, while the African manuscripts contained only the genuine canons of Nicaea, so that the canon appealed to by Zosimus was not contained in the African copies of the Nicene canons. The Nicene Creed (ˈnaɪsiːn is an ecumenical Christian statement of faith accepted in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Assyrian Church of Thus a serious disagreement arose over this appeal, which continued after the death of Zosimus.
Besides the writings of the pope already mentioned, there are extant other letters to the bishops of the Byzantine province in Africa, in regard to a deposed bishop, and to the bishops of Gaul and Spain in respect to Priscillianism and ordination to the different grades of the clergy. Priscillian, Bishop of Ávila (died 385 a theologian from Roman Gallaecia (in the Iberian Peninsula) was the first person in the The Liber Pontificalis attributes to Zosimus a decree on the wearing of the maniple by deacons and on the dedication of Easter candles in the country parishes; also a decree forbidding clerics to visit taverns. For the Roman military unit see Maniple (military unit. The maniple is a liturgical Vestment used primarily within the Roman Catholic Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year. A tavern or pot-house is loosely a place of Business where people gather to drink Alcoholic beverages and more than likely also be served Food Zosimus was buried in the sepulchral Church of St. Laurence in Agro Verano.
References
- De Rossi, Bulletino di arch. christ. , 1881, 91 sqq
- Duchesne, Histoire ancienne de l'église, 111, 228, note
- Harnack Sitzungsberichte der Berliner Akademie, 1904, 1050
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Pope 417–418 |
Succeeded by Boniface I |
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