Pope Donus
Adeodatus II | |
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| Successor | Agatho |
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| Born | |
| Died | 11 April 678 Rome, Byzantine Empire |
Pope Donus (died on 11 April 678) was the
bishop of Rome from 676 to his death. Few details survive about him or his achievements beyond what is recorded in the Liber Pontificalis
.
Election
Donus was the son of a Roman named Maurice.
Pontificate
Donus expanded the clergy of
Nestorian monks in Boetianum, a Syrian monastery in Rome. He gave their monastery to Roman monks and dispersed them through the various religious houses of the city in the hope that they would accept Chalcedonian Christianity. The Nestorians were possibly refugees fleeing the Muslim conquest of the Levant.[6]
During the pontificate of Donus, Archbishop Reparatus of Ravenna returned to the obedience of the
Pope Vitalianus' name be put back in the diptychs of those bishops in communion with Constantinople, an act which caused him a great deal of trouble from the Monothelites and Patriarch Theodore I of Constantinople.[9]
Donus died on 11 April 678 and was buried the same day in Old St. Peter's Basilica. He was succeeded by Agatho.[10]
References
- ^ a b Attwater, Aubrey (1939). A Dictionary of Popes: From Peter to Pius XII. p. 74.
- ^ John Moorhead. The Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity. p. 198.
- ^ Duchesne, p. 348.
- ^ Jacopo Burali d'Arezzo (1638). Vite de'vescovi Aretini ... dall'anno CCCXXXVI sino all'anno MDCXXXVIII, etc (in Italian). Arezzo: Ercole Gori. p. 19.
- ^ Duchesne, Liber Pontificalis I, p. 348, who conjectures in note 2 that the church in question was not the Basilica, but instead a small church commemorating the parting of Peter and Paul on their way to execution. Mann, pp. 20-21.
- ISBN 9781317578260.
...the advances of Persians and then Arabs in the middle east that were responsible for the coming of Maximos to Africa and, presumably, Theodore of Tarsus to Rome, could easily have brought many more, such as the Syrian monks whom pope Donus discovered were Nestorians.
- ^ Oestereich, Thomas. "Pope Donus." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 12 September 2017]
- ^ Delogu, p. 61 note 14: Dono sanctissimo ac beatissimo archiepiscopo antiquae nostrae Romae et universali papae.... J.P. Migne, ed. (1863). *Patrologiae latinae: 87: Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum qui in 7. saeculi secunda parte floruerunt opera omnia ... juxta memoratissimas editiones D. Mabillonii ... (in Latin and Greek). Migne. pp. 1147–1153.
- ^ Baronius (ed. Theiner), p. 600 (year 677, no. 2). The restoration was ordered by the VI Ecumenical Council.
- ^ Duchesne, p. 348.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Pope Donus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Sources
- Baronius, Caesar (1867). Augustinus Theiner (ed.). Annales ecclesiastici: A. D. 1-1571 denuo excusi et ad nostra usque tempora perducti ab Augustino Theiner (in Latin). Vol. Tomus undecimus (600-679). Bar-Le-Duc: Typis et sumptibus Ludovici Guerin. pp. 592–604.
- Doglu, Paolo. "Il papato tra l'impero bizantino e l'Occidente nel VII e VIII secolo," in: Gabriele De Rosa and Giorgio Cracco, ed. (2001). Il papato e l'Europa. Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro): Rubbettino Editore. pp. 55–79, at pp. 61–64. ISBN 978-88-498-0222-1.
- Duchesne, Louis (ed.) (1886). Le Liber pontificalis; texte, introduction et commentaire par L. Duchesne Tome premier. Paris: E. Thorin. pp. 348–349.
- Mann, Horace Kinder (1903). The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages. Volume I, Part II. London: Kegan Paul. pp. 20–22.
External links
- Gasparri, Stefano (2000). "Dono". Enciclopedia dei Papi (in Italian) Retrieved: 2016-11-27.
- Pope Donus in Patron Saints Index