Pope Zachary
Eastern Roman Empire | |
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Died | 15 March 752 Rome, Kingdom of the Lombards | (aged 72–73)
Sainthood | |
Feast day | 15 March |
Venerated in | Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church |
Pope Zachary (
Early career
Zachary was born into a family of Greek origin,[1] in the Calabrian town of Santa Severina. He was most probably a deacon of the Roman Church and as such signed the decrees of the Roman council of 732. He was selected to succeed Gregory III as pope on 3 December[2] or 5 December 741.[3]
Pontificate
Gregory III's alliance with the
Zachary corresponded with Archbishop
Zachary corresponded with temporal rulers as well. Answering a question from the Frankish Mayor of the Palace
Zachary built the original church of
Death and legacy
Pope Zachary died around 15 March 752 (it may also have been the 12th or 14th)[2] and was buried in St. Peter's Basilica. His elected successor, Stephen, died within days, and Zachary was finally succeeded by Stephen II. The letters and decrees of Zachary are published in Jacques Paul Migne, Patrolog. lat. lxxxix. p. 917–960.[5]
Church historian Johann Peter Kirsch said of Zachary: "In a troubled era Zachary proved himself to be an excellent, capable, vigorous, and charitable successor of Peter."[3] Peter Partner called Zachary a skilled diplomat, "perhaps the most subtle and able of all the Roman pontiffs, in this dark corridor in which the Roman See hovered just inside the doors of the Byzantine world."[10]
References
- ^ a b Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye vicomte de (1851). A Complete History of the Popes of Rome, from Saint Peter, the First Bishop, to Pius the Ninth, the Present Pope. J. & J. L. Gihon. p. 185.
...the priest Zachary, a Greek by descent, who was ordained sovereign pontiff on the 28th of November, 741.
- ^ a b Miranda, Salvador. "The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church". Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ a b c d Kirsch, Johann Peter (1912). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company. . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
- ^ a b Butler, Alban (1866). "Zachary, Pope and Confessor". The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. Vol. III. Dublin: James Duffy.
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 950.
- ISBN 9780567082954
- ^ "Assigning Names to Angels – ZENIT – English". zenit.org. September 2015. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
- ISBN 9780191009235.
- ^ Annali d'Italia: Dall'anno 601 dell'era volare fino all'anno 840, by Lodovico Antonio Muratori, Giuseppe Catalani, Monaco (1742); page 298.
- ISBN 9780520021815
Further reading
- Baronius, Cesare (1867). Augustinus Theiner (ed.). Annales ecclesiastici denuo excusi et ad nostra usque tempora perducti ab Augustino Theiner... (in Latin). Vol. Tomus Duodecimus. Barri-Ducis. pp. 466–562.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Davis, Raymond (1992). The Lives of the Eighth-century Popes (Liber Pontificalis): The Ancient Biographies of Nine Popes from AD 715 to AD 817. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-018-2.
- Delogu, Paolo (2000). "Zaccaria, santo", Enciclopedia dei papi Treccani. (in Italian)
- Duchesne, Louis, Le Liber Pontificalis: texte, introduction et commentaire par L. Duchesne Tome I (Paris: E. Thorin 1886), pp. 426–439. (in Latin)
- Hallenbeck, Jan T. (1982). Pavia and Rome: The Lombard Monarchy and the Papacy in the Eighth Century. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. pp. 39–55. ISBN 9780871697240.
- Noble, Thomas F. X. (1984). The Republic of St. Peter: The Birth of the Papal State, 680-825. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 49–60. ISBN 978-0-8122-1239-6.