Zacharias, Saint

Zacharias, Saint

pope
born , San Severino, duchy of Benevento [Italy]
died March 14/22, 752, Rome; feast day March 15

      pope from 741 to 752.

      The last of the Greek popes, Zacharias was supposedly a Roman deacon when he succeeded Pope St. Gregory III (Gregory III, Saint) in November/December 741. His pontificate was devoted to diplomatic relations with the Lombard and Frankish kingdoms and with the Byzantine Empire. He initiated a policy of conciliation with the Lombards while endeavouring to dissuade their rulers, Liutprand and Rachis, from conquering the Byzantine exarchate of Ravenna. Successful, he thus made peace with the Lombards. He maintained amiable relations with the Byzantine emperor Constantine V Copronymus, whom he advised to restore the veneration of icons.

      Zacharias's relations with the Franks were similarly cordial, and his correspondence with St. Boniface (Boniface, Saint), the apostle of Germany, shows how great his influence was on contemporary events in the Frankish kingdom. In 741 he made Boniface legate and charged him with the reformation of the whole Frankish church. He supported the deposition (751–752) of Childeric III, the last Merovingian king, and authorized the Frankish church to anoint Pippin III the Short as king of the Franks. Zacharias's action in the transference of the royal crown from the Merovingians to the house of Pippin (Carolingians) began a new era for church and state by establishing the Carolingian-papal alliance, which was to be of the greatest significance in future relations between pope and emperor and was of extreme importance to the theorists and controversialists of the Investiture Controversy (11th and 12th centuries). The latter dispute concerned secular rulers' right to invest bishops and abbots, which right became one of the paramount aspects in the struggle for power between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire.

      Zacharias is known especially in the East for his Greek translation of the Dialogues of Pope St. Gregory I (Gregory I, Saint) the Great.

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