Pope Silverius
Pope · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 477 to 537 · aged 60
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Something wrong?A sixth-century pope who held the office for barely a year - elevated by a Gothic king hoping for a friendly voice in Rome, then stripped of his title by a Byzantine general and left to starve on a barren island.
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Silverius went from deacon to bishop of Rome on 8 June 536, his promotion engineered by Ostrogothic king Theodahad, nephew to Theodoric the Great, who wanted a pope sympathetic to Gothic interests as war loomed. The timing was no accident: the Gothic War was about to engulf Italy. Within months Byzantine general Belisarius deposed him, put him on trial, and exiled him to Palmarola, a desolate rock in the sea. He died there on 2 December 537, starved, less than eighteen months after his consecration.
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