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POPE ST. SERGIUS I

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(Reigned 687-701), date of birth unknown; consecrated probably on 15 Dec., 687;
d. 8 Sept., 701. While Pope Conon lay dying, the archdeacon Pascal offered the
exarch a large sum to bring about his election as his successor. Through the
exarch's influence the archdeacon was accordingly elected by a number of people;
about the same time another faction elected the archpriest Theodore. The mass of
clergy and people, however, set them both aside and chose Sergius, who was duly
consecrated. Sergius, the son of Tiberius, was a native of Antioch; he was
educated in Sicily, and ordained by [St.] Leo II. The new pope had numerous
relations with England and the English. He received [St.] Caedwalla, King of the
West Saxons, and baptized him (689); and, as he died in Rome, caused him to be
buried in St. Peter's. He ordered St. Wilfrid to be restored to his see, greatly
favoured St. Aldhelm, Abbot of Malmesbury, and is credited with endeavouring to
secure the Venerable Bede as his adviser. Finally he consecrated the Englishman
[St.] Willibrord bishop, and sent him to preach Christianity to the Frisians.
The cruel Emperor Justinian wanted him to sign the decrees of the so-called
Quinisext or Trullan Council of 692, in which the Greeks allowed priests and
deacons to keep the wives they had married before their ordination, and which
aimed at placing the Patriarch of Constantinople on a level with the Pope of
Rome. When Sergius refused to acknowledge this synod, the emperor sent an
officer to bring him to Constantinople. But the people protected the pope, and
Justinian himself was soon afterwards deposed (695). Sergius succeeded in
extinguishing the last remnants of the Schism of the Three Chapters in Aquileia.
He repaired and adorned many basilicas, added the Agnus Dei to the Mass, and
instituted processions to various churches.


SOURCES

Liber Pontificalis, ed. DUCHESNE, I (Paris, 1886), 371 sqq.; HEFELE, Hist. of
the Councils, V (tr., Edinburgh, 1894), 221 sqq.; BEDE, Hist. eccles., V; PAULUS
DIACONUS, De gest. Langob., VI; HODGKIN, Italy and Her Invaders, VI (Oxford,
1895), 352 sqq.; MANN, Lives of the Popes, I (London, 1902), ii, 77 sqq.


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Mann, H. (1912). Pope St. Sergius I. In The Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13728b.htm

MLA citation. Mann, Horace. "Pope St. Sergius I." The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13728b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Herman F.
Holbrook. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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