Pope John IV

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Pope John IV (

bishop of Rome from 24 December 640 to his death on 12 October 642.[1] His election followed a four-month vacancy. He wrote to the clergy of Ireland and Scotland to tell them of the mistakes they were making with regard to the time of keeping Easter and condemned Monothelitism
as heresy. According to sacred tradition, he created the Catholic Church in Croatia with Abbot Martin.

Rise

Pope John was a native of

exarch of Ravenna rather than directly by the emperor in Constantinople.[4]

Papacy

While still only pope

Constantine III, John addressed his apology to Pope Honorius I, in which he deprecated the attempt to connect the name of Honorius with Monothelism. Honorius, he declared, in speaking of one will in Jesus, only meant to assert that there were not two contrary wills in Him.[4]

Troubles in his native land caused by the

Constantine Porphyrogenitus claimed that Duke Porga of Croatia, archon of White Croats who have been invited into Dalmatia by Heraclius, sent to Emperor Heraclius for Christian teachers. It is supposed that the emperor to whom this message was sent was Emperor Heraclius himself, and that he sent it to Pope John IV.[4]

John was buried in the Basilica of St. Peter.

Notes

  1. ^ McKilliam 1912, p. 99.
  2. ^ a b Škunca, Stanko Josip. "Pope John IV from Zadar and the Mission of Abbot Martin in 641", Radovi, Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zadar, No.48 September 2006. pp. 187-198
  3. ^ Miranda, Salvador. "Giovanni", Cardinals of the Holy roman Church, Florida International University
  4. ^ a b c Mann, Horace. "Pope John IV." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 23 September 2017


References

  • Sereno Detoni, Giovanni IV. Papa dalmata, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2006
    ISBN 978-88-209-7889-1
  • McKilliam, Annie E. (1912). A Chronicle of the Popes from St. Peter to Pius X. G. Bell and sons, Ltd.
  • Luciano Rota, I Papi Caio e Giovanni IV, in Istria e Dalmazia. Uomini e tempi, II, Dalmazia, Udine, Del Bianco 1992
  • John IV in Encyclopædia Britannica
  • The Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity John Moorhead - Taylor and Francis - 2014
    ISBN 9781317578277

Attribution:

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Pope
640–642 		Succeeded by
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