Pope Severinus

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Severinus
Birth name  ???
Papacy began May 28, 640
Papacy ended August 2, 640
Predecessor Honorius I
Successor John IV
Born  ???
Rome
Died August 2, 640
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Pope Severinus was pope in the year 640.

A Roman and the son of one Abienus, Severinus was elected on the third day after the death of his predecessor, and envoys were at once sent to Constantinople, to obtain the confirmation of his election in October 638. But the Emperor Heraclius, instead of granting the confirmation, ordered Severinus to sign his Ecthesis, a Monothelite profession of faith. When Severinus refused, he was kept out of the Papal See for almost two years, during which time Heraclius I the catularius and Isaac the exarch plundered the Lateran. He was at last installed on May 28, 640, but died soon afterwards on August 2.

[edit] References

  • "Pope Severinus" in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.
  • Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. Chronicle of the Popes: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the Present, Thames & Hudson, 2002, p. 57. ISBN 0500017980.


Roman Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Honorius I
Pope
640
Succeeded by
John IV


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