There was a Pope Constantine, who reigned from 708-715. He was the only pope to use the name "Constantine."
There was a Pope Constantine who reigned from March 25, 708, to April 9, 715. There is no connection, however, to Roman Emperor Constantine the Great who was not a pope.
Constantine the Great was not a pope. However, there was a pope named Constantine who reigned from March 25, 708 until April 9, 715.
Constantine the Great was never the pope, However, there was a Pope Constantine who reigned from March 25, 708, until April 9, 715. That was nearly 400 years after Constantine the Great died.
No, St. Peter was the first pope.
Pope Constantine was born in 664.
Pope Constantine became Pope on March 25, 708 C.E. Do not confuse Pope Constantine with the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (ca. 272-337).
Pope Constantine died on 715-04-09.
No. He was a Roman Emperor.
Well that depends on your definition of what a Pope is. If you mean the head of The Catholic Church that was since Saint Peter even though Protestants deny this, it was certainly not Constantine, nor influenced by Constantine, when the title of Pope first apears is less clear, some say it comes from the second century A.D. but the first contemporary source to use the title was of Pope Damascus I who lived after Constantine.
No, there were no popes at the time of Constantine. Constantine moved the capital because of economic and logistical reasons. The eighth-century forgery now known as the Donation of Constantine claimed that Constantine moved his imperial capital to the east, in order to grant the pope temporal power in the west. However, nothing in this document was true.
Syria had 5 Popes (St Anicetus, John V, Sisinnius, Constantine and St Gregory III) and Israel had 1 (Theodore I).
During the reign of Constantine I (the Great, 306-337) the popes were: Marcellus I (308-309), Eusebius (309-310) Miltiades (311-314), Sylvester I (314-335), Mark (330), and Julius I (337-352). Between 304 and 308 there was an interregnum, a period where there was not a pope.
Saint Sylvester- pope in the reign of Emperor Constantine I.
Roman Emperor Constantine the Great supported both.
No. Pope Gregory VII in 1079AD decreed the practice.
It was forged to establish the pope's power over the western roman empire