Pope Simplicius
Pope · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 420 to 483 · aged 63
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Something wrong?He held Rome's papacy through the literal collapse of the Western Empire - Odoacer deposed the last emperor in 476 while Simplicius was bishop - yet the administrative machinery of the Church kept turning.
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About this person
Simplicius became bishop of Rome in 468, inheriting a Church pressed by heresy and the chaos of Germanic invasions. He fought the Eutychian heresy and changed canon law to allow bishops to be consecrated outside December, a practical reform in unstable times. In 476, midway through his tenure, Odoacer removed Romulus Augustulus and the Western Roman Empire ceased to exist. The Church's hold on Rome barely wavered. Simplicius died on 10 March 483, fifteen years into a pontificate that outlasted the empire itself.
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