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Pope Zachary

Saint Zachary (Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
Zacharias), pope

Pope

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
(741-752). He came from a Greek family of Calabria

Calabria

Calabria , is a Regions of Italy in Southern Italy Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. It is bounded to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the south-west by the region of Sicily, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea....
. Most probably he was a deacon of the Roman Church and as such signed the decrees of the Roman council of 732; and was on intimate terms with Gregory III

Pope Gregory III

Gregory III was pope from 731 to 741.A Syriacs by birth, he succeeded Pope Gregory II in March 731. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the Iconoclasm controversy in the Byzantine Empire, in which he vainly invoked the intervention of Charles Martel....
, whom he succeeded in December 10 741

741

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Zachary was a wise and subtle diplomat

Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture....
. Finding that his predecessor's alliance with the Lombard

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
Duke of Spoleto

Spoleto

Spoleto is an ancient city in the Italy province of Perugia in east central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennine Mountains. It is 20 km S....
was not protecting Papal cities against the Lombard

Lombards

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Saint Zachary (Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
Zacharias), pope

Pope

Calabria

Pope Gregory III

741

Events...
.

Zachary was a wise and subtle diplomat

Diplomacy

Lombardy

Spoleto

Spoleto is an ancient city in the Italy province of Perugia in east central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennine Mountains. It is 20 km S....
was not protecting Papal cities against the Lombard

Lombards

The Lombards were a Germanic peoples originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italian peninsula in 568 under the leadership of Alboin....
king, Zachary turned to Liutprand directly. Contemporary history (Liber pontificalis
Liber Pontificalis

The Liber Pontificalis is a book of biography of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The original publication of the Liber Pontificalis stopped with Pope Adrian II or Pope Stephen V , but it was later supplemented in a different style until Pope Eugene IV and then Pope Pius II ....
) dwells chiefly on Zachary's great personal influence with Liutprand, and with his successor Ratchis

Ratchis

Ratchis was the Duke of Friuli and King of the Lombards . His father was Pemmo of Friuli. His Rome wife was Tassia. He ruled in peace until he besieged, for reasons unknown, Perugia....
; his tact in dealing with these princes in a variety of emergencies contributed to save the exarchate of Ravenna

Exarchate of Ravenna

The Exarchate of Ravenna or of Italy was a centre of Byzantine Empire power in Italy, from the end of the 6th century to 751, when the last Exarch was put to death by the Lombards....
from the Lombard attacks.

A correspondence, of considerable extent, and great interest, between Zachary and Saint Boniface

Saint Boniface

Saint Boniface , the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid or Wynfrith at Crediton in the kingdom of Wessex , was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century....
, the apostle of Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, survives, and shows how great was the influence of this pope on events then passing in France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
and Germany; he encouraged the deposition of the last Merovingian king of the Franks, Childeric III

Childeric III

Childeric III was the last king of the Franks in the Merovingian dynasty from 743 to his deposition in 751.The throne had been vacant for seven years when the mayor of the Palace, Carloman, son of Charles Martel and Pepin the Short, decided in 743 to recognize Childeric as king....
, and it was with his sanction that Boniface crowned Pepin the Short as King of the Franks at Soissons

Soissons

Soissons is a Communes of the Aisne department in the Aisne Departments of France in Picardie in northern France, located on the Aisne River, about 100 kilometres northeast of Paris....
in 752. Zachary is stated to have remonstrated with the Byzantine

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
emperor

Emperor

An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the female equivalent. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor or a woman who rules in her own right ....
Constantine V

Constantine V

Constantine V was List of Byzantine Emperors from 741 to 775; ); ....
Copronymus on the part he had taken in the iconoclastic

Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm, Greek for "image-breaking," is the deliberate destruction of important symbolic images recognized within a culture, religion, or society....
controversy. He died March 22, 752, and buried in St. Peter's Basilica

St. Peter's Basilica

The Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian language as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is located within the Vatican City....
. His successor was Stephen

Pope-elect Stephen

Stephen was a priest of Rome elected pope in March of 752 to succeed St. Zachary; he died of apoplexy three days later, before being Holy orders a bishop....
who died soon after, before consecration and is not considered a valid pope. He was then succeeded by another Stephen who became Stephen II

Pope Stephen II

Pope Stephen II was a pope of the Roman Catholic Church .The Lombards to the north of Rome had captured Ravenna, former capital of the Byzantine Empire exarchate, in 751, and began to put pressure on Rome....
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In the effort to Christianize Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Zachary built the original church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva

Santa Maria sopra Minerva

Santa Maria sopra Minerva is a basilica churches of Rome Rome. The church, located in the Piazza della Minerva in the Campus Martius region, is considered the only Gothic architecture church in Rome, and is the city's principal Dominican Order church....
over an ancient temple to Minerva

Minerva

Minerva was the Roman mythology name of Greek goddess Athena. She was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving,crafts, and the inventor of music....
near Pantheon

Pantheon, Rome

The Pantheon is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt circa 126 AD during Hadrian's reign....
. He also restored the Lateran Palace

Lateran Palace

The Lateran Palace, formally the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran , is an ancient palace of the Roman Empire and later a Papal Palace. Adjacent to the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, the cathedral Church of Rome, Italy....
, moving the relic of the head of Saint George

Saint George

Saint George of Lydda was according to tradition, a Roman soldier in the Guard of Emperor Diocletian, venerated as a Christian martyr.In Hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Anglican Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, and the Eastern Catholic Churches....
to the church of San Giorgio al Velabro

San Giorgio al Velabro

San Giorgio in Velabro is a basilica churches of Rome Rome, devoted to St. George and located on the ancient Roman Velabrum, near the Arch of Janus, in the rione of ripa ....
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The letters and decrees of Zachary are published in Jacques Paul Migne

Jacques Paul Migne

Jacques Paul Migne was a France priest who published inexpensive and widely-distributed editions of theological works, encyclopedias and the texts of the Church Fathers, with the goal of providing a universal library for the Catholic priesthood....
, Patrolog. lat.
Patrologia Latina

The Patrologia Latina is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865....
lxxxix. p. 917-960.

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