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Boniface IV

Honored
Rank
Status
Saint
Birth
550
Death
615
Honored as

Magisterium
Pontificate
Also known as

Pope Boniface IV · Sanctus Bonifacius PP. IV · Bonifacius IV · papa Bonifacio IV · Bonifacio IV · Boniface IV

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Life

Pope Boniface IV (Latin: Bonifatius IV; 550 – 8 May 615) was the bishop of Rome from 608 to his death on 8 May 615. He was a member of the Benedictine order. Boniface had served as a deacon under Pope Gregory I, and like his mentor, he ran the Lateran Palace as a monastery. As pope, he encouraged monasticism. With imperial permission, he converted the Pantheon into a church. In 610, he conferred with Bishop Mellitus of London regarding the needs of the English Church. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church with a universal feast day on 8 May.

May Boniface IV intercede for us, and may we imitate today the holiness this Life has shown.

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