Pope St. Innocent I
?–417 CE · Rome
Innocent I was an energetic champion of Roman authority across the Western and Eastern churches. He intervened in the deposition of John Chrysostom at Constantinople, protesting the proceedings and breaking communion with John's opponents. He condemned Pelagianism, confirming the African councils' rulings against Pelagius—prompting Augustine's famous remark often paraphrased as 'Rome has spoken.' He reigned during the catastrophic sack of Rome by Alaric's Visigoths in 410, when he was absent at Ravenna negotiating. His many decretals on liturgy and discipline strengthened Rome's claim to be the final court of appeal in church matters.
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Rome in this era
Under Constantine and his successors, Rome flourished as a Christian capital alongside Constantinople, with its bishop asserting primacy; Pope Leo I's 'Tome' was decisive at the Council of Chalcedon (451), and the city saw the construction of great basilicas including St. Peter's.
About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Pelagius, John Cassian, Pope St. Zosimus, Pope St. Anastasius I, Isaac of Antioch
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
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Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Pelagius, John Cassian, Pope St. Zosimus, Pope St. Anastasius I, Isaac of Antioch
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