Pope St. Sixtus III
?–440 CE · Rome
Sixtus III is best remembered as a great builder, presiding over Rome in the aftermath of the Council of Ephesus. He rebuilt and adorned the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, whose celebrated fifth-century mosaics honor Mary as Theotokos, giving architectural expression to the council's affirmation. He worked to reconcile the parties divided by the Nestorian dispute, encouraging the union of Cyril of Alexandria and John of Antioch. Before his papacy he had been sympathetic to Pelagian ideas but conformed to orthodoxy. He also restored other Roman churches, contributing to the city's monumental Christian transformation.
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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
Prosper of Aquitaine, Pope Leo the Great, Peter Chrysologus, Pope St. Celestine I
In the same place & time
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In the same tradition
Prosper of Aquitaine, Pope Leo the Great, Peter Chrysologus, Pope St. Celestine I
The world in their lifetime
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