340 POPES CONDEMNED AND EXCOMMUNICATED. St Isidore Pelusiota denies of any bishop's office that it is &pxi &vuoreGBuvoç, [" an irresponsible government"] In the times of Polycrates and Pope Victor, the whole eastern church forbore communion with the pope.' Firmilian told Pope Stephanus that, by conceiting he might excommunicate all other bishops, he had excommunicated himself. The fathers of the Anti- ochene synod threatened to excommunicate and depose PopeJulius: as Theypromised to Julius peace and communion if he admitted the deposition of those whom they had expelled, and the constitution of thosewhom they had ordained ; but if he resisted their decrees, they denounced the contrary."' The oriental bishops at Sardica excom- municated and deposed him.' St Hilary anathematized Pope Libe- rius upon his defection to the Arians: Anathema tibi, papaLiberi.' Dioscorus attempted to excommunicate Pope Leo.' Acacius of Con- stantinople renounced the communion of Pope Felix. Timotheus Alums cursed the pope. The " African bishops synodically excom- municated Pope Vigilius."e Pope Anastasius was rejected by his own clergy; Pope Constantine by the people ; and so was Pope Leo VIII. Divers bishops of Italy and Illyricum abstained from the pope's communion for a long time, because they admitted the fifth synod. Photius excommunicated and deposedPope Nicholas I.' Maurus, bishop of Ravenna, anathematized Pope Vitalianus.' The Emperor Otho II. having, with good advice, laboured to reclaim Pope John XII. without effect, " indicted a council calling together the bishops of Italy, by the judgment of whom the life of that wicked man should be judged;"' and the issue was that he was deposed. Pope Nicholas I. desired to be judged by the emperor. The fifth synod in general terms condemned Pope Vigilius; and the Emperor Justinian banished him for not complying with the decrees of it. The sixth and seventh general synods anathematized Honorius by 'E, TS xpóvorç naXOxp írovç xai Bixrwpoç roe í7 ¿OVarO.I.A arpàc TAY Súrrn Srapsm.civn aipnurxá xap' icxli7?.m mix aixovrs. Epiph. Hcer. lxx. Audianorum. Dum enim putas omnes abs to abstineri posse, solum to ab omnibus abstinuisti.Firm., apud Cypr. Ep. Gaxop.ÉYW ply 'Iauxíry TAv xagaipaa. TZY urpóç ab.áv iT. n7.apebe ,xai , Av xaráçTao'ry TZY abrJ, xarpaTOVngiv,av, aipñvnv xai xorvaviav ÉornyviA..XSYTO ayharrap:6YO,! Sa 'rors SfiSOyleí,,ç rai avTia panyópavoay. Soz. iii. 8. Soz. iii. 11. s Hil. fragm. 'ET,ix/An a âi xai áxoivavnalav inraycpaFaaar xaTá Tao ápxra9rraxózcu Tní pcayáxns `Pci,,anç Aiovroç. Evag. ii. 4. 6 Africani antistites Vigilium Rom. episc. damnatorem capitulorum synodaliter a catholica communione, reservato ei peenitentiae loco, recludunt. (1. eecludunt.)Viet. Tun. post Cons. Basilii V. C., ann. 10. T Kagaípavry 2`ç Wares xai eivagapaaTrafxáv ávr' ono) .lóyl, ororairar Nrxaxaoú. Vit.Ignatii. Patr., apud Bin., p. 892; Baron., ann. 863. a - communi totius sancti concilii consensu depositus.Luitprand. vi. 6. [Luit- prandus, bishopof Cremona, wrote a history of theRoman council in which Pope John XII. was deposed. En.] concilium indicit, convocatis episcopisItaliæ, quorumjudicio vitasceleratissimi hominis dijudicaretur.Plat. in Joh. XIII (pro XII.), Vid. Baron., ann. 960, et Biniurn.
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