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VIGILIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 60 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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pope from 537 to 555, succeeded See also:Silverius and was followed by See also:Pelagius I. He was ordained by See also:order of See also:Belisarius while Silverius was still alive; his See also:elevation was due to See also:Theodora, who, by an See also:appeal at once to his ambition and, it is said, to his covetousness, had induced him to promise to disallow the See also:council of See also:Chalcedon, in connexion with the " three chapters " controversy. When, however, the See also:time came for the fulfilment of his bargain, Vigilius declined to give his assent to the condemnation of that council involved in the imperial See also:edict against the three chapters, and for this See also:act of disobedience he was peremptorily summoned to See also:Constantinople, which he reached in 547. Shortly after his arrival there he issued a document known to See also:history as his Judicatum (548), in which he condemned indeed the three chapters, but expressly disavowed any intentions thereby to disparage the council of Chalcedon. After a See also:good See also:deal of trimming (for he desired to stand well with his own See also:clergy, who were strongly orthodox, as well as with the See also:court), he prepared another document, the Constitutum ad Imperatorem, which was laid before the so-called fifth " See also:oecumenical " council in 553, and led to his condemnation by the See also:majority of that See also:body, some say even to his banishment. Ultimately, however, he was inducedto assent to and confirm the decrees of the council, and was allowed after an enforced See also:absence of seven years to set out for See also:Rome.

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