{"slug": "pope-vigilius", "label": "Pope Vigilius", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Vigilius", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168734", "qid": "Q168734", "description": "pope", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [537, 556], "span_label": ["537 CE", "556 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "apulia", "label": "Apulia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "belisarius", "label": "Belisarius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "southern-italy", "label": "Southern Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "totila", "label": "Totila", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tiber", "label": "Tiber", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "diplomacy", "label": "Diplomacy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "monophysitism", "label": "Monophysitism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 537, "year_label": "537 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – Pope Vigilius succeeds Silverius as the 59th pope, when the latter is deposed by Belisarius at the order of Justinian I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370992976#Religion", "title": "537", "revid": 1370992976, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 540, "year_label": "540 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope Vigilius rejects Monophysitism in letters to Justinian I and patriarch Menas of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367291057#Religion", "title": "540", "revid": 1367291057, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 544, "year_label": "544 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Justinian I issues a new edict condemning the Three Chapters. In Western Europe, Pope Vigilius refuses to acknowledge the imperial edict and is ordered to summon to Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317382475#The_Mediterranean_World,_Europe,_and_the_Middle_East", "title": "544", "revid": 1317382475, "section": "Events › By place › The Mediterranean World, Europe, and the Middle East"}}, {"year": 546, "year_label": "546 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 17", "text": "December 17 – Sack of Rome: After almost a year's siege, the capture of a grain fleet sent by the exiled Pope Vigilius near the mouth of the Tiber, and failure of troops of the Byzantine Empire under Belisarius to relieve the city, the Ostrogoths under King Totila plunder Rome and destroy its fortifications. He then withdraws to Apulia (Southern Italy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747564#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "546", "revid": 1364747564, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 554, "year_label": "554 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope Vigilius was allowed to return to Rome after years of pressure from Emperor Justinian regarding the Second Council of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364904137#Religion", "title": "554", "revid": 1364904137, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 555, "year_label": "555 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 7", "text": "June 7 – Pope Vigilius dies at Syracuse on his journey back home. His body is brought to Rome and buried in the San Martino ai Monti.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356951195#Religion", "title": "555", "revid": 1356951195, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 556, "year_label": "556 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – The diplomatic representative (apocrisiarius) to Constantinople is elected as Pope Pelagius I, succeeding Vigilius as the 60th pope of Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739824#Religion", "title": "556", "revid": 1364739824, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}]}