Everything about Pope Boniface V totally explained
Boniface V (died
October 25,
625) was
pope from
619 to
625.
He was consecrated as pope on
December 23,
619. He did much for the
Christianising of
England and enacted the decree by which churches became places of refuge for criminals.
Boniface V was a
Neapolitan who succeeded
Pope Adeodatus I after a vacancy of more than a year. Before his consecration, Italy was disturbed by the rebellion of the eunuch
Eleutherius,
Exarch of Ravenna. The patrician pretender advanced towards Rome, but before he could reach the city, he was slain by his own troops.
The
Liber Pontificalis records that Boniface made certain enactments relative to the rights of
sanctuary, and that he ordered the ecclesiastical
notaries to obey the laws of the empire on the subject of
wills. He also prescribed that
acolytes shouldn't presume to translate the relics of
martyrs and that, in the
Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, they shouldn't take the place of
deacons in administering
baptism. Boniface completed and consecrated the cemetery of
Saint Nicomedes on the
Via Nomentana. In the
Liber Pontificalis, Boniface is described as "the mildest of men", whose chief distinction was his great love for the clergy.
The Venerable
Bede writes of the pope's affectionate concern for the English Church. The "letters of exhortation" which he's said to have addressed to
Mellitus,
Archbishop of Canterbury, and to
Justus,
Bishop of Rochester, are no longer extant, but certain other letters of his have been preserved. One is written to Justus, after he'd succeeded Mellitus as Archbishop of Canterbury in
624, conferring the
pallium upon him and directing him to "ordain bishops as occasion should require." According to Bede, Pope Boniface also sent letters to
Edwin,
King of Northumbria (625), urging him to embrace the Christian faith; and to the Christian Princess
Æthelburg of Kent, Edwin's spouse, exhorting her to use her best endeavours for the conversion of her consort (Bede,
H.E., II, vii, viii, x, xi).
He was buried in St. Peter's on
25 October 625.
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