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Head of the Catholic Church from 604 to 606
Sabinian
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Church
| Catholic Church
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Papacy began
| 13 September 604
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Papacy ended
| 22 February 606
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Predecessor
| Gregory I
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Successor
| Boniface III
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Born
| c. 530
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Died
| 22 February 606
(606-02-22)
(aged 75?76)
Rome
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Eastern Roman Empire
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Previous post(s)
| Cardinal-Deacon of the Holy Roman Church (15 October 590 - 13 September 604)
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Pope Sabinian
(
Latin
:
Sabinianus
) was the
bishop of Rome
from 13 September 604 to his death on 22 February 606. His pontificate occurred during the
Eastern Roman domination
of the
papacy
. He was the fourth former
apocrisiarius
to Constantinople to be elected pope.
Apocrisiariat
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Sabinian was born at
Blera
(Bieda) near
Viterbo
. He had been sent by
Pope Gregory I
, who had a high opinion of him, as
apocrisiarius
to the imperial court in
Constantinople
. In 595, Gregory was angered by Sabinian's lack of resolution in discussion with
Emperor Maurice
about the disputed assumption of the title "ecumenical patriarch" by
John IV of Constantinople
. Sabinian was then recalled and sent on a mission to
Gaul
the same year.
[1]
He returned to
Rome
in 597.
[2]
Pontificate
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Sabinian was
elected
to succeed Gregory probably in March 604, but had to wait for
imperial ratification
before being
consecrated
in September.
[1]
During his pontificate, Sabinian was seen as a counterfoil to Gregory I. The
Liber pontificalis
praises him for "filling the church with clergy", in contrast to Gregory, who tended to fill ecclesiastical positions with monks.
[2]
[1]
Sabinian incurred unpopularity by his unseasonable economies,
[3]
although the
Liber pontificalis
states that he distributed grain during a famine at Rome under his pontificate. Whereas Gregory distributed grain to the Roman populace as invasion loomed, when the danger had passed Sabinian sold it to them. Because he was unable or unwilling to allow the people to have the grain for little or nothing, there grew up in later times a number of legends in which his predecessor was represented punishing him for avarice. Sabinian died 22 February 606. His funeral procession through the city had to change course to avoid hostile Romans.
[4]
Onofrio Panvinio
, in his 1557
Epitome pontificum Romanorum
, attributes to Sabinian the introduction of the custom of ringing
bells
at the
canonical hours
and the celebration of the
Eucharist
,
[3]
hence expressions such as
o'clock
(latin clocca:a bell). The first attribution of this was in
Guillaume Durand
's thirteenth-century
Rationale Divinorum Officiorum
.
[2]
Notes
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References
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- Duffy, Eamon
.
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes
, Yale University Press, 2001, p. 72?73.
ISBN
0-300-09165-6
- Ekonomou, Andrew J.
2007.
Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes: Eastern influences on Rome and the papacy from Gregory the Great to Zacharias, A.D. 590?752
. Lexington Books.
ISBN
978-0739119778
- Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.
Chronicle of the Popes: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the Present
, Thames & Hudson, 2002, p. 54.
ISBN
0-500-01798-0
.
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