Pope Boniface IV
Pope · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 550 to 615 · aged 65
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Something wrong?He turned Rome's Pantheon - a temple to all the gods - into a church for one. The seventh-century pope who repurposed the empire's grandest pagan monument also ran the papal residence like a cloister, blurring the line between throne and monastery.
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Boniface IV came up through the church as a deacon under Gregory I, absorbing his mentor's monastic discipline and carrying it into the papacy when he took office in 608. A Benedictine by training, he administered the Lateran Palace as if it were a monastery, not a seat of power, and spent his tenure promoting monastic life across the church. His signature act required imperial consent: converting the Pantheon, Rome's vast pagan temple, into a Christian basilica. In 610 he met with Mellitus, bishop of London, to address the organizational needs of the young English church. He died on 8 May 615, after seven years in office, and the Catholic Church canonized him with a feast day marking the date of his death.
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