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Pope Saint Julius I, was
pope from
February 6,
337 to
April 12,
352.
He was a native of
Rome and was chosen as successor of
Mark after the Roman see had been vacant for four months. He is chiefly known by the part he took in the
Arian controversy. After the followers of
Eusebius of Nicomedia, who was now the
Patriarch of Constantinople, had renewed their deposition of
Athanasius as bishop of Alexandria, at a synod held in
Antioch in 341, they resolved to send delegates to
Constans, Emperor of the West, and also to Julius, setting forth the grounds on which they'd proceeded. Julius, after expressing an opinion favourable to Athanasius, adroitly invited both parties to lay the case before a synod to be presided over by himself. This proposal, however, the Arian Eastern bishops declined to accept.
On this second banishment from
Alexandria, Athanasius came to
Rome, and was recognised as a regular
bishop by the
synod presided over by Julius in 342. Julius sent a letter to the Eastern bishops that's an early instance of the claims of primacy for the bishop of Rome. Even if Athanasius and his companions were somewhat to blame, the letter runs, the Alexandrian Church should first have written to the pope. "Can you be ignorant," writes Julius, "that this is the custom, that we should be written to first, so that from here what is just may be defined" (Epistle of Julius to Antioch, c. xxii).
It was through the influence of Julius that, at a later date, the
council of Sardica in
Illyria was held, which was attended only by seventy-six Eastern bishops, who speedily withdrew to
Philippopolis and deposed Julius at the
council of Philippopolis, along with Athanasius and others. The three hundred Western bishops who remained, confirmed the previous decisions of the Roman synod; and by its 3rd, 4th, and 5th decrees relating to the rights of revision claimed by Julius, the council of Sardica perceptibly helped forward the pretensions of the
Bishop of Rome. Julius died on April 12, 352 and was succeeded by
Liberius.
Julius is considered a saint in the
Roman Catholic Church, with his
feast day on April 12.
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