Silverius

Silverius (fantasy from the 17th century)

Silverius (* in? Frosinone , † 2 December 537 on Ponza ), son of Pope Hormisdas , was from June 536 until his resignation on November 11, 537 Pope . Like his father, he was probably born in Frosinone in Lazio or a neighboring town.

His pontificate was short and problematic from the start. The subdeacon encountered great reservations among the Roman clergy . After the death of Agapitus I, Theodora , the wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I , favored Vigilius , who was then living in Constantinople , as Pope , because she expected him to accept Monophysitism . Theodahad , the king of the Ostrogoths , on the other hand, did not want a Pope allied with Constantinople and enforced Silverius before Vigilius arrived in Rome .

In the same year Rome was occupied by the Eastern Roman general Belisarius and Silverius was banished to Patara in what is now Turkey in 537 for high treason . Vigilius took his place. Emperor Justinian soon allowed Silverius to return to Italy , but Vigilius banished him to the small island of Ponza in the Gulf of Gaeta or, according to other sources, to the neighboring island of Palmarola , where he died on December 2, 537. This day is his memorial day .

literature

Wilhelm Kohl: Silverius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 336-338. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Claire Sotinel: Silverio. In: Enciclopedia dei Papi. Treccani.it. L'Enciclopedia Italiana., 2000, archived from the original on May 6, 2013 ; Retrieved March 6, 2018 (Italian).
Entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913.
Massimiliano Vitiello: Theodahad. A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy , Toronto / Buffalo / London 2014 ISBN 978-1-4426-4783-1 pp. 37, 109, 131, 137, 139, 143 f., 176, 190

Web links

Commons : Silverius - collection of images, videos and audio files

Silverius in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

Individual evidence

^ Hubert Stadler, Hermes Handlexikon Popes and Councils , Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-612-10013-0

predecessor	Office	successor
Agapitus I.	Pope 536-537	Vigilius

personal data
SURNAME	Silverius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pope (536-537)
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century or 6th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	unsure: Frosinone
DATE OF DEATH	December 2, 537
Place of death	unsure: Ponza Island

[1] Hubert Stadler, Hermes Handlexikon Popes and Councils , Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-612-10013-0