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Leo (I) the Great, (St Leo) (c. 390–461)Pope from 440. He helped to establish the Christian liturgy. Leo summoned the Chalcedon Council where his Dogmatical Letter was accepted as the voice of St Peter. Acting as ambassador for the emperor Valentinian III (425–455), Leo saved Rome from devastation by the Huns by buying off their king, Attila. |
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Since that time, however, church fathers have generally opposed it, sometimes vociferously, as with Leo the Great in the fifth century. Christ, Pope Leo the Great asserted, is like us in all respects, including his body, apart from sin. The first, titled "upon this rock," treats the early centuries up to the reign of Leo the Great (d. |
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