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Pope St. Hilarius

Pope St. Hilarius

?–468 CE · Sardinia

Hilarius, a Sardinian who served as a leading deacon under Pope Leo I, had been Leo's legate at the contentious Second Council of Ephesus (449), where he barely escaped after protesting its proceedings. Elected in 461, he consolidated Leo's legacy, strengthening papal authority over the churches of Gaul and Spain through synods and decretal letters that clarified jurisdiction and discipline. He defended Chalcedonian orthodoxy and reportedly rebuked the Eastern emperor Anthemius over toleration of heterodox worship in Rome. He also adorned Roman churches, notably the Lateran baptistery. His pontificate reinforced Rome's administrative reach in the post-imperial West.

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Sardinia, the large Mediterranean island west of Italy. In the early Church it was a place of penal exile; several Roman clergy, including Pope Pontian and Hippolytus, were deported to its mines under persecution.

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