Pope Pelagius II
Pope and Bishop of Rome (r. 579-590) · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 520 to 590 · aged 70
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Something wrong?He held the papacy for a decade when Rome was crumbling - besieged by Lombards, ravaged by plague, and abandoned by Byzantium. Then the same plague killed him.
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Pelagius II became bishop of Rome on 26 November 579, inheriting a city under siege and a church in crisis. For over ten years he navigated a papacy defined by isolation - the Lombard invasion had cut Rome off from Constantinople, and imperial help never came. He died on 7 February 590, another victim of the epidemic sweeping through the city he'd tried to hold together.
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