Pope John VII
Bishop of Rome | |
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 Byzantine Mosaic of John VII, c. 705 | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Papacy began | 1 March 705 |
| Papacy ended | 18 October 707 |
| Predecessor | John VI |
| Successor | Sisinnius |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 650 |
| Died | 18 October 707 (aged 56 – 57) |
| Other popes named John | |
Pope John VII (
Byzantine popes, but had better relations with the Lombards, who ruled much of Italy, than with Emperor Justinian II
, who ruled the rest.
Family
John was an ethnic
Byzantine emperor. This makes John the first pope to be the son of a Byzantine official.[3] His mother was called Blatta (c. 627 – 687).[3]
Pontificate
John VII was
Liber pontificalis
for not signing them:
He [Emperor Justinian II] despatched two metropolitan bishops, also sending with them a mandate in which he requested and urged the pontiff [John VII] to gather a council of the apostolic church, and to confirm such of them as he approved, and quash and reject those which were adverse. But he, terrified in his human weakness, sent them back to the prince by the same metropolitans without any emendations at all.[9]
John VII died 18 October, 707 and was buried in the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary which had been added on to St. Peter's.[10] He was succeeded by Sisinnius.[5]
Legacy
Several monuments in
Subiaco
, destroyed by the Lombards in 601.
Notes
- ISBN 9788889345047.
Rossano, a town in southern Italy, which is probably the birthplace of another well-known Greek figure, Pope John VII who reigned in the See of St. Peter for two years (705–707)
- ISBN 9781406782127.
Pope John VII. (705–707) was a native of Rossano.
- ^ a b Kelly, J. N. D. The Oxford Dictionary of Popes. Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 84.
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "John VII (pope)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Breckenridge, J. D. "Evidence for the Nature of Relations between Pope John VII and the Byzantine Emperor Justinian II". Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Vol. 65, 1972.
- ^ Nordhagen, P. J. "Constantinople on the Tiber".
- ^ Smith, J. M. H. (ed.). Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West. Leiden, 2000.
- ^ Davis, R. The Book of Pontiffs: the ancient biographies of the first ninety Roman bishops to AD 715. Liverpool University Press, 2000, p. 91.
- ^ Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes, (HarperCollins, 1997), 117.
- ^ Augenti, A. Il Palatino nel Medioevo. Roma, 1996.
- ^ Nordhagen, J. P. "Icons designed for the display of sumptuous votive gifts". Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 41, 1988.
References
- Claudio Rendina, I Papi. Storia e segreti, Newton Compton, Rome, 1984.
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