Pope Simplicius

Simplicius (* in Tivoli, Italy, † March 10 483 in Rome) was dated 3 March 468 to 10 March 483 Patriarch of Rome and the Pope. He was born in Tivoli, Italy, the son of a citizen named Castinus. Its name means " the Simple " (latin )

Simplicius defended the Council of Chalcedon against the heresy miaphysitische decision, the people of Italy against marauding barbarian soldiers helped, got 472 in a conflict with the emperor Anthemius, witnessed the revolt of the foederati 476 and the subsequent proclamation of Odoacer rex for Italiae, and experienced shortly after the end of the Western Roman Empire with the deposition of the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer.

His feast day ( Catholic) is 10 March.

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