The Lombard king, Desiderius, agreed to provide troops, and sent a Lombard priest, Waldipert, to act as his representative, with authority to deal with Christophorus and Sergius.

Sergius pledged the Church ’ s qualified loyalty to the Bolshevik state ( an act his defenders claim saved the Church from total liquidation ).

Enraged, Emperor Justinian II dispatched his magistrianus, also named Sergius, to Rome to arrest bishop John of Portus, the chief papal legate to the Third Council of Constantinople and Boniface, the papal counselor.

Formosus consecrated Sergius as bishop of Caere ( Cerveteri ) in 893, apparently in order to remove him from Rome.

When Sergius was ignored, the pope wrote to the bishop of Pola in 910, making it clear that:

The Diocese of Utrecht was established in 695 when Saint Willibrord was consecrated bishop of the Frisians at Rome by Pope Sergius I.

At the age of fifteen, Marozia became the mistress of Theophylact's cousin Pope Sergius III, whom she knew when he was bishop of Portus.

Saint Hubertus is consecrated bishop by Pope Sergius I.

However, Pope Sergius III ( 904 – 911 ), who as bishop had taken part in the Cadaver Synod as a co-judge, overturned the rulings of Theodore II and John IX, reaffirming Formosus ' conviction, and had a laudatory epitaph inscribed on the tomb of Stephen ( VI ) VII.

* 698: St Willibrord commissioned by Pope Sergius I as bishop of the Frisians ( Netherlands ).

Rebuilding the cathedral became a major task for the then-ruling bishop, Archbishop Sergius ( Tikhomirov ), who succeeded St. Nicholas after he died in 1912.

Metropolitan Sergius ( Tikhomirov ) of Japan ( secular name Georgiy Alexeyevich Tikhomirov )( 1871 – 1945 ) was a monk and bishop of the Orthodox Eastern Church.

In 1912 archbishop Nicolas reposed, and Sergius took over as ruling bishop of the Japanese Orthodox mission.

Raising funds for its restoration became a central activity of bishop Sergius and the Japanese faithful for the next years, and they succeeded in independently raising a vast sum and restoring the cathedral by 1929.

In 1931 the then archbishop Sergius was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan bishop by the Moscow Patriarchate.

After Peter's arrest, Sergius of Nizhny Novgorod was the only bishop from Peter's " list " who was not in prison or exile at the time.

Sergius was then forcibly exiled by Lambert, fleeing to his see at Caere, where he placed himself under the protection of Adalbert II, Margrave of Tuscany.

With the conversion of Sergius Paulus, Paul begins to gain prominence over Barnabas from the point where the name " Paul ," his Roman name, is substituted for " Saul " ( 13: 9 ); instead of " Barnabas and Saul " as heretofore ( 11: 30 ; 12: 25 ; 13: 2, 7 ) we now read " Paul and Barnabas " ( 13: 43, 46, 50 ; 14: 20 ; 15: 2, 22, 35 ); only in 14: 14 and 15: 12, 25 does Barnabas again occupy the first place, in the first passage with recollection of 14: 12, in the last two, because Barnabas stood in closer relation to the Jerusalem church than Paul.

Her poppet, her Sergius, was no chicken, with a dud arm that prompted hope of early retirement.

To this end, Honorius " sent his deacon Gaios " to a synod in Cyprus in 634 hosted by archbishop Arkadios II with additional representatives from Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople.

Furthermore, the Acts of the Thirteenth Session of the Council state, " And with these we define that there shall be expelled from the holy Church of God and anathematized Honorius who was some time Pope of Old Rome, because of what we found written by him to Sergius, that in all respects he followed his view and confirmed his impious doctrines.

When Desiderius attempted to enter Rome in 771 with an army, claiming to be on a pilgrimage to pray at the shrine of St. Peter, Christophorus and Sergius shut the gates of the city against them.

The Pope sent two bishops to negotiate with Christophorus and Sergius, telling them that they must either retire to a monastery or come out to him at St. Peter ’ s.

In an attempt to forestall the potential intervention of Charlemagne, Desiderius had Stephen write a letter to the Frankish king wherein he declared that Christophorus and Sergius had been involved in a plot with an envoy of Charlemagne ’ s brother, Carloman, to kill the Pope.

As a result of the dispute, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian II ordered Sergius I's abduction ( as his predecessor Constans II had done with Pope Martin I ), but with the assistance of the exarch of Ravenna, Sergius I was able to avoid trial in Constantinople.

Sergius I himself rejected certain canons of the Council, although he continued to support political unity with Constantinople.

The opposition was suppressed, with Sergius intervening to save John's life.

The Church and the Emperor reached an accommodation, with Louis being crowned king of Lombardy by Sergius, although the Pope did not accede to all the demands made upon him.

With the death of Theodore in 898, Sergius, with a small following of Roman nobility led by his father Benedictus, attempted to have himself elected pope, contrary to the wishes of the emperor Lambert, who was also duke of Spoleto.

Sergius accepted, and with the armed backing of Adalbert II, he entered Rome, by which stage Christopher had already been cast into prison by Theophylact.

Sergius III owed his rise to the power of his new patron Theophylact, and quickly rewarded him with the position of sacri palatii vestararius, the principal official at the top of papal patronage in control of the disbursements, and thus of patronage.

It was alleged that Sergius managed to get the consent of the Roman clergy at the synod by threatening them with exile, violence or through the use of bribery.

However, on the one occasion that Sergius agreed to crown Berengar in around 906, Berengar was prevented from reaching Rome by the forces of Alberic I of Spoleto and Adalbert II of Tuscany, both of whom had been supporters of Sergius, but were unhappy with his decision to support Berengar.

Sergius ’ ties with the family of Theophylact were made even closer, at least according to rumour, by Sergius ’ supposed affair with Theophylact ’ s daughter, Marozia.

Then on January 24, eight days before Stephen ’ s death, Afiarta dragged the blinded Sergius from his cell in the Lateran and had him strangled.

On the death of Gregory IV, the archdeacon John was proclaimed pope by popular acclamation, while the nobility elected Sergius, a Roman of noble birth.

The Catholic Encyclopedia states the following concerning the alleged illicit relationship of Pope Sergius III with Marozia: " that he put his two predecessors to death, and by illicit relations with Marozia had a son, who was afterwards John XI, must be regarded as highly doubtful.

Pope Sergius IV ( died 12 May 1012 ), born in Rome as Pietro Martino Buccaporci, was Pope from 31 July 1009 until his death.

When news reached Heraclius of the Pope ’ s condemnation, he was already old and ill, and the news only hastened his death, declaring with his dying breath that the controversy was all due to Sergius, and that the patriarch had pressured him to give his unwilling approval to the Ecthesis.

Before his death, however, Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople had drawn up the Ecthesis in response to the orthodox synodical letter of Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and on learning of the death of Pope Honorius had convinced the Emperor to issue this document as an imperial edict in December 638, thus valid across the entire empire.

Following the death of Sergius in 638, Pyrrhus succeeded him as Patriarch, but was shortly deposed due to political circumstances.

After an elaborate dedication to a friend the priest and abbot Sergius, a brief recapitulation of events from the death of Julian in 363 and a fuller account of the reigns of the Persian kings Peroz I ( 457-484 ) and Balash ( 484-488 ), the writer enters upon his main theme: the history of the disturbed relations between the Persian and Greek Empires from the beginning of the reign of Kavadh I ( 489 – 531 ), which culminated in the great war of 502 – 6.

He succeeded to the papal chair two months after the death of Pope Sergius I, and his election occurred after a vacancy of less than seven weeks.

Andrei Rublev probably lived in the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra near Moscow under Nikon of Radonezh, who became hegumen after the death of Sergii Radonezhsky ( 1392 ).

Saeculum obscurum () is a name given to a period in the history of the Papacy during the first half of the 10th century, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasting for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964.

Shortly before his death, Alexius fruitlessly tried to convince Sergius of Radonezh to become his successor.

After the death of Louis, Ebbo succeeded in regaining possession of his see for some years ( 840-844 ), but in 844 Pope Sergius II confirmed his deposition.

In 1378, Dionysius was recommended as Metropolitan of Moscow by St. Sergius of Radonezh after the death of Metropolitan Alexius.

After Sergius IV's death ( 1012 ), the Crescentii simply installed their candidate, Gregory, in the Lateran, without the assent of the cardinals.

On the death of Pope Gregory IV, the Archdeacon John was proclaimed Pope by popular acclamation, while the nobility elected Pope Sergius II, a Roman of noble birth.

The latter, The Life of Sergii Radonezhsky, he started to write a year after the death of Saint Sergius according to his own memories.

He finished the writings 26 years after the death of Sergius, i. e., around 1417-1418.

Over the next days, Sergius was also brutally tortured and finally executed at Resafa, where his death was marked by miraculous happenings.

On the death of Pope Sergius IV in June, 1012, " a certain Gregory " opposed the party of the Theophylae ( which elected Pope Benedict VIII against him ), and got himself made Pope, seemingly by a small faction.

Patriarch Sergius (, born Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky, Иван Николаевич Страгородский ; – May 15, 1944 ) was the 12th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus ', from September 8, 1943 until his death.