Felix of Ravenna
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Felix (Felice) (died 724) was an archbishop of Ravenna of the eighth century, in office 709 to his death.
He was consecrated by Pope Constantine[1], but soon afterwards asserted his independence from Rome. When Ravenna was captured by the forces of Justinian II, Felix was taken to Constantinople, tried and blinded, and sent into exile[2][3][4]. Justinian was deposed in 711, and Felix returned from Pontus[5] to Ravenna[6].
He collected 176 sermons of his predecessor Peter Chrysologus[7].
[edit] Notes
- ^ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Constantine
- ^ EUROPEAN & ASIAN HISTORY 650 - 749
- ^ Walter Ullmann, A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages (2003), p. 64.
- ^ Rosamond McKitterick (editor), The New Cambridge Medieval History II (2005), p. 363.
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Ravenna
- ^ Jeffrey Richards, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476-752 (1979), p. 213.
- ^ William A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers (1970), p. 266.
