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Pope Miltiades

Saint Miltiades Birth name Miltiades (or Melchiades) Papacy began 2 July311Papacy ended 10 January314Predecessor EusebiusSuccessor Sylvester IBorn (date unknown)
northern AfricaDied 10 January314
Rome, Italy
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Pope Miltiades Reference styleHis Holiness Spoken style Your Holiness Religious style Holy Father Posthumous style Saint


Pope Saint Miltiades, also called Melchiades, was pope from 2 July 311 to 10 January 314.[1]

He appears to have been an African by birth, but of his personal history nothing is known. He was elected after a period of sede vacante lasting from the death of Pope Eusebius on 17 August 310 or, according to others, 309, soon after Eusebius was exiled to Sicily.

Miltiades became pope after the Roman emperor Galerius had passed an edict of toleration ending the persecution of Christians. During his pontificate, in 313, the Edict of Milan was passed by the tetrarchs Constantine and Licinius, declaring that they would be neutral with regard to religious worship and restoring church property. Constantine presented the pope with the Lateran Palace which became the papal residence and seat of Christian governance.

In the same year 313, Miltiades presided over the Lateran Synod in Rome at which Caecilian was acquitted of the charges brought against him, and Donatus Magnus was condemned as a heretic (see Donatism). He was then summoned to the Council of Arles, the first representative meeting of the Western Roman Empire's Christian bishops, but died before it was held.

The Liber Pontificalis, compiled from the fifth century onwards, attributed the introduction of several later customs to Miltiades.

In the thirteenth century, the feast of Saint Melchiades (as he was then called) was included, with the mistaken qualification of "martyr", in the Roman Calendar for celebration on 10 December. In 1969 it was removed from that calendar of obligatory liturgical celebrations,[2] and his feast was moved to the day of his death, 10 January, with his name given in the form "Miltiades" and without the indication "martyr".[3]

References

  1. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2008 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana ISBN 978-88-209-8021-4), p. 8*
  2. ^ Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), p. 148
  3. ^ Martyrologium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2001 ISBN 88-209-7210-7)

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Roman Catholic Church titlesPreceded by
EusebiusBishop of Rome
Pope
July 2, 311January 11, 314Succeeded by
Sylvester I


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