# Of The Rise Of The Popes After The Year 606, As Also Of The Interruption Of The Succession Of The Same.

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Besides, that in the first three centuries after the
death of the apostles, nothing was known in the
Roman church, as regards rulers of the same, but
common bishops or overseers, until the time of Constantine
the Great, and from that time on to the
year 600, only archbishops and patriarchs, but no
popes, till after the year 606, when, by the power
of the Emperor Phocas, the Roman Bishop Boniface
III. was declared and established the general
head and supreme ruler of the whole church;—the
succession also of the following popes was interrupted
by many important occurrences, with respect
to the manner of the papal election as well as to the
doctrine and the life of the popes themselves, as also
with regard to various circumstances pertaining to
these matters. Of this an account shall presently be
given.

Note.—Besides what we have mentioned in our
account of holy baptism, for the year 606, of the rise
and establishment of the Roman pope, there is also
found, concerning the cause of the same (in the
Chronijk van den Ondergang der Tyrannen, edition
of 1617, book VII., page 211, col. 2), this annotation:
When the patriarch at Constantinople
reproved the Emperor Phocas for the shameful murder
he had committed, or would not consent to, or
remit it, while the bishop of Rome winked at, or
excused this wicked deed, the Emperor Phocas, in
his displeasure, deprived the church of Constantinople
of the title, Head of Christendom, and, at
the request of Boniface III., conferred it upon the
Roman church; which was done amidst great contentions,
for the eastern churches could not well
consent to it, that the see of Rome should be considered
by everybody, and everywhere, as the head
and the supreme (of the) church. Compare this
with Platinae Reg. Pap. fol. 123; Fasc. Temp.
fol. 122; Pol. Virgil, lib. 4. cap. 10; Hist. Georg.
lib. 4; Conrad. Oclutar. fol. 15; Tract, called,
Ouden en Nieuwen Godt. lib. 1; M. Zanchij Tract.
Pap. fol. 41; Zeg. Chron. Rom. Pap. fol 132.



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