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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 117 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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pope from See also:June 536 to See also:March 537, successor of Pope See also:Agapetus I., was a legitimate son of Pope See also:Hormisdas, See also:born before his See also:father entered the priesthood. He was consecrated on the 8th of June 536, having See also:purchased his See also:elevation from the See also:Gothic See also:king Theodotus. Six months afterwards (Dec. 9) he was one of those who admitted See also:Belisarius into the See also:city. He opposed the restoration of the See also:patriarch Anthimus, whom Agapetus had deposed, and thus brought upon himself the hatred of See also:Theodora, who desired to see See also:Vigilius made pope. He was deposed accordingly by Belisarius in March 537 on a See also:charge of treasonable See also:correspondence with the Goths, and degraded to the See also:rank of See also:monk. He went to See also:Constantinople, and Justinian, who entertained his complaint, sent him back to See also:Rome, but Vigilius was ultimately able to banish his See also:rival to Pandataria, where the See also:rest of his See also:life was spent in obscurity. The date of his See also:death is unknown.

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