Pope Celestine I

Pope Saint

Celestine I
Pope Saint; Celestine I
Bishop of Rome
Church	Catholic Church
Papacy began	10 September 422
Papacy ended	1 August 432
Predecessor	Boniface I
Successor	Sixtus III
Personal details
Born	Celestine; C. 376 AD; Rome, Roman Empire
Died	August 1, 432 (aged 55–56)
Sainthood
Feast day	27 July (Catholic); 8 April (Eastern Orthodox); 3 Epip (Coptic Christianity);
Venerated in	Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church; Oriental Orthodoxy;
Attributes	Dove; Dragon; Flame;
	Other popes named Celestine

Pope Celestine I (Latin: Caelestinus I) (c. 376 – 1 August 432) was the bishop of Rome from 10 September 422 to his death on 1 August 432. Celestine's tenure was largely spent combatting various ideologies deemed heretical. He supported the mission of the Gallic bishops that sent Germanus of Auxerre in 429, to Britain to address Pelagianism, and later commissioned Palladius as bishop to the Scots of Ireland and northern Britain. In 430, he held a synod in Rome which condemned the apparent views of Nestorius.

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