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Vigilius (died 555)

Pope, 537-555, who ascended the papal throne after plotting with Theodora, wife of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, to depose his predecessor St Silverius. Vigilius played a leading role in the ‘Controversy of the Three Chapters’, a dispute within the Eastern Church over the doctrine of the Monophysites. In this matter, Vigilius's indecision over whether to support or oppose the emperor, who sought a compromise with the Monophysites, earned him the enmity both of Justinian and of many in the Western Church.



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