- Pope Boniface I
Infobox Pope
English name=Boniface I
birth_name=???
term_start=December 28 ,418
term_end=September 4 ,422
predecessor=Zosimus
successor=Celestine I
birth_date=???
birthplace=???
dead=dead|death_date=death date|422|9|4|mf=y
deathplace=???
other=Boniface| infobox popestyles
papal name=Pope Boniface I
dipstyle=His Holiness
offstyle=Your Holiness
relstyle=Holy Father
deathstyle=Saint |Pope Saint Boniface I was
pope fromDecember 28 ,418 toSeptember 4 ,422 . He was a contemporary ofSaint Augustine of Hippo , who dedicated to him some of his works.On the death of
Pope Zosimus , two parties put forward their own candidate for Pope, one for Boniface, the other forEulalius .Galla Placidia , the Empress consort ofConstantius III , theWestern Roman Emperor , asked the emperor Honorius to intervene, and he sent an edict instructing both men to leaveRome . At the followingEaster , Eulalius returned to the city to performbaptism s and celebrate the feast; when the emperor heard of this, Eulalius was stripped of his rank and banished from Rome, and onDecember 28 , 418 Boniface became pope.Boniface continued the opposition to
Pelagianism , persuaded EmperorTheodosius II to returnIllyricum to Western jurisdiction, and defended the rights of theHoly See .External links
* [http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/01_01_0418-0422-_Bonifacius_I,_Sanctus.html Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina]
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