Everything about Pope Donus totally explained
Pope Donus was
pope from
November 2,
676 to
April 11,
678.
He was the son of a
Roman named Mauricius. Not much is known of this pope.
Reign
While he was pope, he paved the enclosed forecourt of
St. Peter's Basilica, paved the atrium or quadrangle in front of St. Peter's with great blocks of white marble, and restored other churches of
Rome, notably the church of St. Euphemia on the Appian Way, and the basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
During the pontificate of Donus,
Reparatus, the
Archbishop of
Ravenna, returned to the obedience of the
Holy See, thus ending the schism created by Archbishop Maurus who had aimed at making Ravenna
autocephalous.
During the reign of Donus, a colony of
Nestorian monks was discovered in a Syrian monastery at Rome — the Monasterium Boetianum. Donus is reported to have dispersed them through the various religious houses of the city, and to have given their monastery to Roman monks.
Relations with
Constantinople at the time of Donus' reign tended towards the conciliatory.
Donus' pontificate lasted one year, five months, and ten days. He was buried in
St. Peter's Basilica.
An apocryphal
Pope Donus II used to be listed in the official lists. He was mistakenly inserted after
Pope Benedict VI. The name comes from a confusion of the title
domnus (
dominus) and the Roman name
Donus (
LP II, XVIII, and 256).
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