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GELASIUS , the name of two popes. GELASrus I., See also:

pope from 492 to 496, was the successor of See also:Felix III. He confirmed the estrangement between the Eastern and Western churches by insisting on the removal of the name of Acacius, See also:bishop of See also:Constantinople, from the diptychs. He is the author of De duabus in Christo naturis adversus Eutychen et Nestorium. A See also:great number of his letters has also come down to us. His name has been attached to a See also:Liber SacramentoruM anterior to that of St See also:Gregory, but he can have composed only certain parts of it. As to the so-called Decretum Gelasii de libris recipiendis et non recipiendis, it also is a compilation of documents anterior to Gelasius, and it is difficult to determine Gelasius's contributions to it. At all events, as we know it, it is of See also:Roman origin, and 6th-See also:century or later. (L.

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