Information about Pope Simplicius

Simplicius
Birth nameSimplicius
Papacy began468
Papacy endedMarch 10, 483
PredecessorHilarius
SuccessorFelix III
Born???
Tivoli, Italy
DiedMarch 10 483
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Styles of
Pope Simplicius
Reference styleHis Holiness
Spoken styleYour Holiness
Religious styleHoly Father
Posthumous styleSaint|


Pope Saint Simplicius was pope from 468 to March 10, 483.

He was born at Tivoli, Italy, the son of a citizen named Castinus. Most of what is known of him is derived from the Liber Pontificalis.

Simplicius defended the action of the Council of Chalcedon against the Monophysite heresy (and its confirmation of the equality to the Bishop of Rome of the eastern patriarchs), labored to help the people of Italy against the marauding raids of barbarian invaders, and saw the Heruli mercenaries revolt and proclaim Odoacer king of Italy in 476, having deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor. Odoacer made few changes in the administration at Rome, firmly in the hands of its Bishop. He worked to maintain the authority of Rome in the West.

Pope Simplicius is credited for the construction of a church entitled to the virgin and martyr St Bibiana.

He has been declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, with his Feast day being 10 March.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Hilarius
Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Peter (deprecated A.D. 495), Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles
Supreme Pontiff (Pontifex Maximus)
Patriarch of the West (deprecated 2006), Primate of Italy,
Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province
Servant of the Servants of God
Pope

468–483
Succeeded by
Felix III


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Pope Saint Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 461 to February 28, 468). He was canonized as a saint after his death.
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Pope Saint Felix III was pope from March 13, 483 to 492.

He was born into a Roman senatorial family and said to have been an ancestor of Saint Gregory the Great. Nothing certain is known of Felix until he succeeded St. Simplicius.
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Country Italy
Region Lazio
Province Rome
Mayor Marco Vincenzi (since June 2003)

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A style of office, or honorific, is a form of address which by tradition or law precedes a reference to a person who holds a title or post, or to the political office itself. An honorific can also be awarded to an individual in a personal capacity.
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saint is one who is sanctified (cf. 2 Chron. 6:41). The early Christians were all called saints. (Heb. 13:24; Jud. 1:3; Phile. 1:5, 7) Over time, the traditional usage of the term saint
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The Pope (from Latin: papa, father;[1] from Greek πάπας (papas) = father - originally written πάππας (
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Liber Pontificalis (Latin for Book of the Popes) is a book of biographies of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The original publication of the Liber Pontificalis stopped with Pope Adrian II (867–872) or Pope Stephen V (885–891),
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The Council of Chalcedon was an ecumenical council that took place from October 8 to November 1, 451, at Chalcedon (a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor), today part of the city of Istanbul on the Asian side of the Bosphorus and known as the district of Kadıköy.
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Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning 'one, alone' and physis meaning 'nature') is the Christological position that Christ has only one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian position which holds that Christ has two natures, one divine and one human.
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The Heruli (spelled variously in Latin and Greek) were a nomadic Germanic people, who were subjugated by the Ostrogoths, Huns, and Byzantines in the 3rd to 5th centuries. The name is related to earl (see erilaz) and was probably an honorific military title.
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Odoacer (435 – 493), also known as Odovacar (from the Germanic Audawakrs, meaning "watchful of wealth"), was a Roman general and the first barbarian King of Italy, who deposed the Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476.
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Romulus Augustulus
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Tremissis of Romulus Augustus.
Reign 31 October 475 - 4 September, 476
Full name Flavius Romulus Augustus
Died After 476
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Santa Bibiana is a small church in Rome, devoted to St Bibiana.

It was initially built by Pope Simplicius, and consecrated in 467. The church was restored by Pope Honorius III in 1224.
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Saint Bibiana (Viviana, Vivian, Vibiana), a Roman virgin and martyr, occurs in the Liber Pontificalis, where, in the biography of Pope Simplicius (468-483), it is stated that this pope "consecrated a basilica of the holy martyr Bibiana, which contained
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saint is one who is sanctified (cf. 2 Chron. 6:41). The early Christians were all called saints. (Heb. 13:24; Jud. 1:3; Phile. 1:5, 7) Over time, the traditional usage of the term saint
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