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master to Constantinople, and to have taken part in the Three Chapters controversy; in 553, at all events, he signed the " constitutum " of Vigilius in favour of these, and for refusing, with him, to accept the decrees of .the fifth See also:

general See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council (the 2nd of Constantinople, 553) shared his See also:

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile. Even after Vigilius had approved the comdemnation of the Three Chapters, Pelagius defended them, and even published a See also:

BOOK

book on the subject. But when Vigilius died (See also:

JUNE

June 7, 555), he accepted the council, and allowed himself to be designated by Justinian to succeed the See also:

LATE

late pope. It was in these circumstances that he returned to Rome; but most of the See also:

clergy, suspecting his orthodoxy, and believing him to have had some See also:

SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the removal of his predecessor, shunned his fellowship. He enjoyed, however, the support of See also:

Narses, and, after he had publicly purged himself of complicity in Vigilius's See also:

DEATH

death in the See also:

church of St See also:

Peter, he met with See also:

TOLERATION (from Lat. tolerare, to endure)

toleration in his own immediate See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese. The See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the western bishops, however, still held aloof, and the episcopate of See also:

Tuscany caused his name to be removed from the diptychs. This elicited from him a circular, in which he asserted his See also:

LOYALTY

loyalty to the four general See also:

COUNCILS

councils, and declared that the hostile bishops had been guilty of See also:

SCHISM

schism. The bishops of See also:

LIGURIA

Liguria and Aemilia, headed by the See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of See also:

Milan, and those of See also:

ISTRIA (Ger. Istrien)

Istria and See also:

Venice, headed by See also:

Paulinus of See also:

AQUILEIA

Aquileia, also withheld their fellowship; but Narses resisted the appeals of Pelagius, who would have invoked the See also:

SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm. See also:

CHILDEBERT

Childebert, See also:

king of the See also:

Franks, also refused to interfere.

Pelagius died on the 4th of See also:

March 561, and was succeeded by See also:

John III.

End of Article: PELAGIUS I

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