Pope Boniface I

Pope Boniface I

Infobox Pope
English name=Boniface I


birth_name=???
term_start=December 28, 418
term_end=September 4, 422
predecessor=Zosimus
successor=Celestine I
birth_date=???
birthplace=???
dead=dead|death_date=death date|422|9|4|mf=y
deathplace=???
other=Boniface|
infobox popestyles
papal name=Pope Boniface I
dipstyle=His Holiness
offstyle=Your Holiness
relstyle=Holy Father
deathstyle=Saint|

Pope Saint Boniface I was pope from December 28, 418 to September 4, 422. He was a contemporary of Saint Augustine of Hippo, who dedicated to him some of his works.

On the death of Pope Zosimus, two parties put forward their own candidate for Pope, one for Boniface, the other for Eulalius. Galla Placidia, the Empress consort of Constantius III, the Western Roman Emperor, asked the emperor Honorius to intervene, and he sent an edict instructing both men to leave Rome. At the following Easter, Eulalius returned to the city to perform baptisms and celebrate the feast; when the emperor heard of this, Eulalius was stripped of his rank and banished from Rome, and on December 28, 418 Boniface became pope.

Boniface continued the opposition to Pelagianism, persuaded Emperor Theodosius II to return Illyricum to Western jurisdiction, and defended the rights of the Holy See.

External links

* [http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/01_01_0418-0422-_Bonifacius_I,_Sanctus.html Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina]


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