Adrian II ( Latin Hadrianus PP. II ; 792 , Rome - December 14, 872 ) - Pope from December 14, 867 to December 14, 872 .
| Adrian II | |||
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| lat Hadrianus PP. II | |||
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| December 14, 867 - December 14, 872 | |||
| Church | Roman catholic church | ||
| Predecessor | Nicholas I | ||
| Successor | John VIII | ||
| Birth | 792 Rome , Italy | ||
| Death | December 14, 872 | ||
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Biography
Born in Rome , was a relative of Popes Stephen IV (V) and Sergius II . Having become dad on the third attempt, Adrian supported, but with less energy, the policies of his predecessor Nicholas I.
A few days after his accession to the throne, Cyril and Methodius arrived in Rome with the relics of Pope Clement I. Adrian solemnly met the brothers, consecrated books translated into Old Slavonic, and ordered the Slavic liturgies to be held in Rome. He supported the mission among the Slavic peoples, recognized the right of the Slavs to use their native language in worship, and after the death of Cyril in 869 he appointed Methodius the archbishop of Pannonian and Moravian.
Lothar II , king of Lorraine died in 869 and left Adrian as an intermediary between the Frankish kings in order to ensure the inheritance of the lands of Lothar by his brother, Holy Roman Emperor Louis II .
In 869, Adrian condemned the actions of the patriarch of Constantinople Photius I against the papal throne. Photius shortly after the council at which he anathematized Pope Nicholas I, was expelled from the patriarchate by the new emperor, Vasily Makedonyanin , who favored his rival Ignatius. The Fourth Council of Constantinople was convened (considered the eighth Ecumenical Council by the Catholic Church) to resolve this issue. At this council, Adrian was represented by legates who advocated condemning Photius as a heretic, but did not succeed.
Adrian forbade marriage to clerics.
He had a wife and daughter. One senior clergyman, Eleutherius, asked the pope for his daughter’s hands for his son. Rejected, he abducted and killed the wife and daughter of Adrian II. The culprit was caught and died in a papal prison. [1]
Adrian died in 872 , exactly five years after the pontificate.
Notes
- ↑ A. Paradisis . The life and work of Baltazar Kossa. Pope John XIII. M., Publishing House of Foreign Literature, 1961
Literature
- in Russian
- Adrian, popes // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Adrian II / Ovsienko F.G. // A - Questioning. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 2005. - P. 243. - ( Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 1). - ISBN 5-85270-329-X .
- The Russian Humanitarian Encyclopedic Dictionary: In 3 vols. - M.: Humanit. ed. Center VLADOS: Filol. Fak. St. Petersburg state University, 2002
- in other languages
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Adrian sv II." Encyclopædia Britannica 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press .
- Loughlin, James Francis (1907). "Pope Adrian II." Catholic Encyclopedia 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.