2 August 640 A.D. Severinus Dies—Rome’s 71st; Refused to Sign Monothelite Profession of Faith as Ordered by Emperor
Mann, Horace. "Pope
Severinus." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert
Appleton Company, 1912.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13742c.htm. Accessed 15 Jul 2014.
Pope Severinus
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The date of his birth is not known. He was consecrated seemingly on 28 May,
640, and died 2 Aug., 640.Severinus, a Roman and the son of Abienus, was elected as usual on the third day after the
death of his predecessor, and envoys were at once sent to Constantinople, to obtain the confirmation of his election (Oct., 638). But the emperor,
instead of granting the confirmation,
ordered Severinus to sign his Ecthesis,
aMonothelite profession of faith.
This the pope-elect refused to do, and the Exarch Isaac, in order to force him to
compliance, plundered the Lateran Palace. All was in vain; Severinus stood firm. Meanwhile his
envoys atConstantinople, though refusing to sign any heretical documents and
deprecating violence in matters of faith,
behaved with great tact, and finally secured the imperial confirmation. Hence, after a vacancy of over a year and seven months, the See of Peter was again filled, and its new
occupant proceeded at once to declare that as in Christ there were two natures so also were
there in Him two wills and two natural operations. During his brief reign
he built the apse of old St. Peter's in which church he was buried.
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Sources
Liber
Pontificalis, ed. DUCHESNE, I (Paris, 1886), 328 sq.; the works of St. MAXIMUS,
in P.G., XC, XCI; MANN, Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages, I (London,
1906), 346 sqq.
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