Pope Eusebius

{{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}}Template:Short description Template:Infobox Christian leader Pope Eusebius (died 21 October 310) was the bishop of Rome from 18 April 309 until his exile on 17 August 310.

BiographyEdit

Not much is known about Eusebius' early life, but he was probably a Greek.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>

As in the case of his predecessor, Marcellus I, difficulty arose out of Eusebius's attitude toward the lapsi.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Schaff-Herzog" /> Eusebius maintained the attitude of the Roman Church, adopted after the Decian persecutions (250–51), that the apostates should not be forever debarred from ecclesiastical communion, but readmitted after doing proper penance. This view was opposed by a faction of Christians in Rome under the leadership of Heraclius. Johann Peter Kirsch believes it likely that Heraclius was the chief of a party made up of apostates and their followers, who demanded immediate restoration to the Roman Church. Emperor Maxentius intervened and exiled them both.<ref name="Kirsch">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Eusebius died in exile in Sicily very soon after being banished and was buried in the catacomb of Callixtus.<ref name=EB>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> Pope Damasus I placed an epitaph over his tomb because of his firm defence of ecclesiastical discipline and the banishment which he suffered thereby.<ref name=Kirsch/><ref name=Schaff-Herzog>{{#if: |

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  }}</ref> His feast is celebrated on 17 August. The feast had previously been observed on 26 September.<ref name=EB/>

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Opera Omnia

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