Pope St. Leo II- The Pope Who Condemned His Predecessor For "Silently Siding With Heresy"
The same outcome should come to the Conciliar Pontiffs who have been teaching heresy
Pope (682-83), date of birth unknown; d. 28 June, 683. He was a
Sicilian, and son of one Paul. Though elected pope a few days after the
death of St. Agatho (10 June, 681), he was not consecrated till after
the lapse of a year and seven months (17 Aug., 682). Under Leo’s
predecessor St. Agatho, negotiations had been opened between the Holy
See and Emperor Constantine Pogonatus concerning the relations of the
Byzantine Court to papal elections. Constantine had already promised
Agatho to abolish or reduce the tax which for about a century the popes
had had to pay to the imperial treasury on the occasion of their
consecration, and under Leo’s successor he made other changes in what
had hitherto been required of the Roman Church at the time of a papal
election. In all probability, therefore, it was continued correspondence
on this matter which caused the delay of the imperial confirmation of
Leo’s election, and hence the long postponement of his consecration.
The
most important act accomplished by Leo in his short pontificate was his
confirmation of the acts of the Sixth Oecumenical Council (680-1). This
council had been held in Constantinople against the Monothelites, and
had been presided over by the legates of Pope Agatho. After Leo had
notified the emperor that the decrees of the council had been confirmed
by him, he proceeded to make them known to the nations of the West. The
letters which he sent for this end to the king and to the bishops and
nobles of Spain have come down to us. In them he explained what the
council had effected, and he called upon the bishops to subscribe to its
decrees. At the same time he was at pains to make it clear that in
condemning his predecessor Honorius I, he did so, not because he taught
heresy, but because he was not active enough in opposing it. In
accordance with the papal mandate, a synod was held at Toledo (684) in
which the Council of Constantinople was accepted.
The fact that Ravenna had long been the residence of the emperors or of
their representatives, the exarchs, had awakened the ambition of its
archbishops. They aspired to the privileges of patriarchs and desired to
be autocephalous, i.e. free from the direct jurisdiction of the pope,
considered as their primate. As they could not succeed in inducing the
popes to agree to their wishes, they attempted to secure their
accomplishment by an imperial decree recognizing them as autocephalous.
But this did not prove sufficient to enable the archbishops to effect
their purpose, and Leo obtained from Constantine Pogonatus the
revocation of the edict of Constans. On his side, however, Leo abolished
the tax which the archbishops had been accustomed to pay when they
received the pallium. And though he insisted that the archbishops-elect
must come to Rome to be consecrated, he consented to the arrangement
that they should not be obliged to remain in Rome more than eight days
at the time of their consecration, and that, while they were not to be
bound to come again to Rome themselves in order to offer their homage to
the pope, they were each year to send a delegate to do so in their
name. Perhaps because he feared that the Lombards might again ravage the
catacombs, Leo transferred thence many of the relics of the martyrs
into a church which he built to receive them. This pope, who is called
by his contemporary biographer both just and learned, is commemorated as
a saint in the Roman Martyrology on 28 June.
Popes who have fallen into heresy
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