Pope Vigilius
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7 dated entries naming Pope Vigilius, drawn from 7 separate years between 537 CE and 556 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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6th century
- 537March 29 – Pope Vigilius succeeds Silverius as the 59th pope, when the latter is deposed by Belisarius at the order of Justinian I.source
- 540Pope Vigilius rejects Monophysitism in letters to Justinian I and patriarch Menas of Constantinople.source
- 544Justinian 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.source
- 546December 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).source
- 554Pope Vigilius was allowed to return to Rome after years of pressure from Emperor Justinian regarding the Second Council of Constantinople.source
- 555June 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.source
- 556April 16 – The diplomatic representative (apocrisiarius) to Constantinople is elected as Pope Pelagius I, succeeding Vigilius as the 60th pope of Rome.source
Named in the same entries
- Rome (3)
- Constantinople (2)
- Byzantine Empire (1)
- Ostrogoths (1)
- Apulia (1)
- Belisarius (1)
- Southern Italy (1)
- Totila (1)
- Tiber (1)
- Syracuse, Sicily (1)
- Diplomacy (1)
- Monophysitism (1)