LEO THE GREAT

AD 400-461

BY THE

REV. CHARLES GORE

BISHOP OF OXFORD

I. The Age of Leo

II. The Church and the World

III. Leo and the Manicheans

IV. Eutychianism

V. The Fourth General Council 

VI. Leo the Pope

VII. Leo the Pope (continued)

VIII. Triumph and Death of Leo

IX. Leo the Disciplinarian 

X. Leo the Theologian

XI. Leo and his Contemporaries

TABLE OF DATES.

A.D.

395 Death of Theodosius the Great; accession of Honorius in the West, Arcadius in the East. St. Leo probably born circa 390-400.

397 Deaths of St. Ambrose and St. Martin of Tours.

402 St. Innocent I, Pope.

407 Death of St. Chrysostom.

408 Theodosius II, Emperor of the East.

410 Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Goths.

412 Pelagian Controversy.

417 Zosimus, Pope.

418 Boniface, Pope.

420 Death of St. Jerome.

422 St. Celestine I, Pope.

425 Valentinian III, Emperor of the West.

430 Vandals desolate Africa. Death of St. Augustine.

431 Council of Ephesus (3rd Ecumenical) Nestorius condemned.

432 Sixtus III, Pope.

440 St. Leo I, Pope.

444 Death of St. Cyril. Leo expels Manichaeans from Rome.

445 Quarrel of St. Leo with St. Hilary of Arles.

448 Eutyches condemned at Constantinople.

449 “Robber Council” of Ephesus. Murder of St. Flavian. Anatolius succeeds him at Constantinople.

450 Marcian, Emperor of the East.

451 Council of Chalcedon (4th Ecumenical). Dioscorus deposed. Proterius, his successor, murdered. Timothy The Cat  usurps the see of Alexandria.

452 Encounter of Leo and Attila.

453 Death of Attila.

455 Maximus, Emperor of the West. Sack of Rome by Genseric. Avitus and Majorian, Emperors of the West.

457 Leo I, Emperor of the East.

458 Gennadius, Bishop of Constantinople.

460 Timothy Salophaciolus, Bishop of Alexandria. Triumph of the Orthodox cause.

461 Severus (Ricimir), Emperor of the West. Death of St. Leo.