Biography of pope hormisdasa

Head of the Catholic Church from 514 to 523

"Saint Hormisdas" redirects here. For the 7th-century Syrian monk, see Rabban Hormizd. For the 5th-century Persian martyr, see Hormizd the Martyr.

Pope Hormisdas (;^[2] c.

450^[2] – 6 August 523) was the bishop of Rome from 20 July 514 to his death.^[3] His papacy was dominated by the Acacian schism, started in 484 by Acacius of Constantinople's efforts to placate the Monophysites.

His efforts to resolve this schism were successful, and on 28 March 519, the reunion between Constantinople and Rome was ratified in the cathedral of Constantinople before a large crowd.^[3]

Family and early career

Hormisdas was born in Frusino in the moribund era of the Western Roman Empire.

His Persian name was probably given in honour of an exiled Persian noble, Hormizd, "celebrated in the Roman martyrology (8 August) but not so honoured in the East." The names of his father, Iustus or Justus, fr