Felix IV, Pope
Felix IV, Pope
Reigned from 526 to 530 . Born Samnium, Italy ; died Rome, Italy . As pope, in favor with Theodoric, Arian king of the Goths, he secured prestige for the Church . From Amalasuntha, the daughter of Theodoric, who succeeded her father, he obtained a confirmation of the custom exempting clerics from civil jurisdiction, and a gift of two Roman temples which he converted into churches. He opposed semi-Pelagianism with his “Capitula,” taken from Scripture and the writings of the Fathers; they were later published as canons.