biography
pronunciation:
[jelayshius]
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| Pope (492–6), African by birth. He was one of the earliest bishops of Rome to assert the supremacy of the papal chair. He repressed Pelagianism, renewed the ban against the oriental patriarch, drove out the Manichaeans from Rome, and wrote against the Eutychians and Nestorians. Feast day 21 November. |
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