Pope Boniface V
?–625 CE · Naples
Boniface V, a Neapolitan, devoted much of his pontificate to the young Church in Anglo-Saxon England, corresponding warmly with King Edwin of Northumbria, his queen Aethelburh, and the missionaries—letters preserved by the Venerable Bede that are among the chief records of his reign. He is credited with affirming the right of churches to serve as places of sanctuary and with reforms regarding clerical roles in ecclesiastical functions. Generous to the poor, he completed the cemetery of San Nicomede. His engagement with distant England illustrates the papacy's growing role as a center binding the western Churches together.
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Naples, capital of the Campania region in southern Italy, began as a Greek settlement, refounded as Neapolis in the sixth century BCE. Tradition places Virgil's tomb in the city; papyri of the Epicurean Philodemus, recovered from the Villa of the Papyri at nearby Herculaneum, are kept in its National Library. Frederick II founded its university in 1224, where Thomas Aquinas studied and later taught. From the late thirteenth century until 1816 it was capital of the Kingdom of Naples and an important Catholic see. Its Jewish community dates back to Roman times; after the 1492 expulsion from Spain, Isaac Abarbanel served its king until the French took the city in 1495, and Jews had left Naples by 1541.
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