Pope Zosimus

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Boniface I
Personal details
Born
Mesoraca, Roman Empire
Died(418-12-26)26 December 418
Rome, Western Roman Empire
Sainthood
Feast day27 December

Pope Zosimus was the

See of Arles over that of Vienne, giving energetic decisions in favour of the former, but without settling the controversy. 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.[3]

Family background

According to the

Jewish origin,[4] but this has been rejected by Louis Duchesne.[5]

Pontificate

The consecration of Zosimus as

papal vicar
for the whole of Gaul, with no Gallic ecclesiastic being permitted to journey to Rome without bringing with him a certificate of identity from Patroclus.

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". 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. The dispute, however, was not settled until the pontificate of Pope Leo I.

Confrontation with Pelagianism

Side entrance to San Clemente al Laterano, which is largely the same as it was when Zosimus and Caelestius met there in AD 418.

Paulinus of Milan, on account of which Caelestius had been condemned at Carthage
in 411, were laid before him. 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 conduct of Caelestius and said that it was not certain whether he had really maintained the false doctrine rejected by Innocent, and therefore Zosimus 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.

After he received from

Honorius
against the Pelagians, Zosimus 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 clerics who had been condemned by their bishops to appeal to the Roman See. When the priest

Nicene
canons. This mistake ignited a serious disagreement over the appeal, which continued after the death of Zosimus.

Legacy

Besides the writings of the pope already mentioned, there are extant other letters to the bishops of the

Basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls.[8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Pope St. Zosimus" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ^ "Mesoraca Italy: Mesoraca guide, city of Mesoraca, Calabria Italy". www.initalytoday.com. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  3. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Zosimus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1044.
  4. ^ Adolf von Harnack, Sitzungsberichte der Berliner Akademie, 1904, 1050
  5. ^ Louis Duchesne, Histoire ancienne de l'église, Tome III, deuxième édition (Paris: Fontemoing 1910), p. 228, note.
  6. ^ Patroclus of Arles is not to be confused with Bishop Patroclus of Marseille, who claimed to be metropolitan of Gallia Narbonensis Secunda, a matter dealt with by Pope Zosimus in a letter of 29 September 417. Philipp Jaffé (1885). Regesta pontificum Romanorum: ab condita Ecclesia ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII (in Latin). Vol. Tomus I (altera ed.). Leipzig: Veit. pp. 49, no. 334.
  7. ^ Duchesne, Liber Pontificalis, I, p. 225 note 2, rejects the notion that the palleis linostimis is the same as the mappula.
  8. ^ Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Bulletino di arch. christ., 1881, 91 sqq. Carmelo Lo Re (1998). Papa S. Zosimo di Castel Reazio: un santo calabrese, riformatore, padre occidentale della Chiesa dimenticato (in Italian). Soveria Mannelli (CZ): Calabria Letteraria Editrice. p. 268.

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417–418 		Succeeded by
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