The Bishop of Rome can't be judged for any criminal action by a human court.
The barbaric gladiator games are stopped for economic reasons
not for moral or religious reasons
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500
The Apocryphon Johannis Papyrus dating to this time is claimed by some to be written by Apostle John and was first discovered in Cairo in 1896. It was only translated to English in 1995 and 3 other copies were discovered in 1945 in Egypt. They show how the early Christian Churches struggled with the meaning of religious truths, scriptures, about sin, redemption, the nature of God and the end of the world. By 2006 5,700 Greek manuscripts of the New Testaments have been discovered. The earliest is a tiny fragment from Apostle John dated to 120 A.D. There is little doubt that changes and additions were made to scriptures up to and including the 12 century. There are 10,000 different Latin versions and 200,000 to 400,000 other language versions.
The Vandals from Poland held Western Africa, the Diocese of Africa, Visigoth (Western Goth) from Scandia held Spain, Ostrogoth (Eastern Goth) from Scandia held Italy, Germanic-Franks from Scandia held Gaul, Burgundians held Rhone river, and Celts, Germanic-Anglo-Saxon held the diocese of England. The massive migration of the Mongols, the Huns, Goth, Slav-Bulgars, and Avars westward is because of adverse weather conditions driving them from their lands . The Germanic-Danes inhabited the Danish Islands, Schonen, and later Jutland.
St. Brendan (521-527) in his voyage to the northwest suggests the Celts of Ireland discovered America about this time.
Some suggest King Ambrosianus Aurelius, a Roman who united the British against the Saxon retired this year from active military action. The military scene is shifted to the mythical King Arthur who's forces joined the other King's of Briton.
The Polynesian reached Hawaii and established agricultural settlements. These people had traveled 2,500 miles from Island to Island. It is inconceivable that these peoples didn't reach America in the past 500 years. The Polynesians colonized Hawaii, Easter Island, and Madagascar by 500 A.D.
The Greek Orthodox Church compiled the first complete version of the bible. Some pages of the Old Testament are missing but the New Testament is complete. It is believed the Greek bible source is from Phoenicia, Canna and Hebrew writings all Semitic sources.
Many early Franks practiced polygamy and incest during the 6th century. Widows and daughters are forced by tradition to marry the victors of battle. The Germanic Lombard (long bearded ones) also practiced polygamy. They often purchased their wives who could rise to high place, become priestesses and go to war taking an active part in the fighting.
The Jews from Ravenna, Venice and Pola migrate over the next five hundred years to Austria.
Some believe the modern Turkish People originated in northern Mongolia about this time.
501
Symmachus bishop of Rome (498-514) is charged with pagan practice, unchaste and misuse of church property. Many clergy withdrew from communion and the King appointed the Bishop of Altinum to preside until the charges are resolved. Symmachus is imprisoned in St. Peters. Two synods failed to resolve the issue but a third synod in 502 decreed that being a bishop of Rome, no human court could judge him and judgment must be left to God. The King is displeased with the acquittal and encouraged anti-bishop of Rome Lawrence to return to Rome. Lawrence is given control of the churches and property and ruled as bishop of Rome for four years.
502
The Liang Dynasty (502-556) is included in the Northern and Southern Dynasty Period.
503
Gaul, Holland and Belgium are united into one Empire.
506
Symmachan Forgeries are created to justify that the bishop of Rome can be judged by no man and intense diplomatic activity resolved the split in the Roman Church. Lawrence had to withdraw. Many Papa's and clerics refused to accept the bishop of Rome's authority.
507
After the victory over the Visigoth (Western Goth) this year the Franks Merovingian dynasty began. Others contend the Franks Merovingian Dynasty, is established by Clovis last century. These Germanic Celt Franks (French) established themselves at Poitiers, Gaul (France) this year.
Men from Tsinngan, China report being blown across the Great Sea East to a people who speak a strange language.
511
King Theuderich I (511-533) son King Clovis I (481-511) ruled Austrasia the district north East of Neustria (Paris, France).
514
St. Brendan (484-577) of Ireland explored the area discovering the Hebrides, Orkney, Faroe Islands and Iceland, starting about this time. In 554 he said for America.
514
St Hormisdas (514-523) a married rich aristocrat Italian is elected bishop of Rome. His son Silverius (536-537) would later became a bishop of Rome. A peacemaker he extinguished the last embers of the Lawrentian schism and ended the thirty-five year schism between east and west.
520
Celtic King Arthur defeated the savage West Germanic-Saxon stopping their advances
523
St. John I (523-526) a Tuscany being elderly and infirm is elected bishop of Rome. Emperor Justin I (518-527) in his zeal for orthodoxy revived old laws against heretics and began persecuting Aryans and Goths in his realms. There churches are seized, they are excluded from public office and many are forced to abandon the Arian faith. These measures alarmed Theadorie, King of Italy (493-526) who is a Goth and Arian. He ordered the bishop of Rome to Ravenna and ordered him to lead a high powered delegation of Papa's and Senitors to Constantinople to stop the persecutions.
Isis is the most enduring and beloved symbol of ancient Egypt, whose following is especially popular in the Greek and Roman periods. Isis represents the women who civilized Egypt by teaching agriculture, medicine and instituting marriage. She is totally dedicated to the service of mankind. Isis is the epitome of the selfless woman, the charmer, the endurer, and the loyal spouse. The following of Isis that endured for nearly 5,000 years is not eradicated until the reign of the Emperor Justinian. This is the final turning point of Europe from its maternal ancestry to a paternal philosophy and the inevitable turn into darkness from the light.
St. Brendan (484-577) of Ireland recounts how another monk told him of a land far to the west of Ireland, a land of plenty. St Brendan took this account seriously as he and 17 other monks spent 7 years to discover this land. If this be true then only two explanations exist, someone had traveled to America before this time or someone from American traveled to Europe. See 554.
526
Some 250,000 people died in an earthquake May 29 at Antioch, Syria. Fire destroyed most structures spared by the earthquake. Benedict (480-543) is so outraged by the vice and corruption of Rome he spent three years as a hermit in a cave at Subiaco east of Rome. He established a monastery on the site of an ancient temple of Apollo and in 529 established the rules for monasteries. The rules included vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
John I bishop of Rome (523-526) traveled to Constantinople but failed to secure a stop to the persecution of the Goth and Arian. The Italian King imprisoned the bishop of Rome for his failure where he collapsed and died. St Felix IV (526-530) a Samnite is elected bishop of Rome . This bishop of Rome is consecrated by order of Theadoric Ostrogoth King of Italy (493-526) . He ordained 55 priests to secure his position.
527
Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople wanted to unite all branches of the Christian Churches, and to abolish all heresies. He closed the Academy of Athens that he considered a pagan center. Using legislation (the new law) he repressed the Manichaeans, Jews and Samaritans to a level of second class citizens. The Samaritans believe that they are descendents of Jacob.
The Justinian Code concluded that those who are not Catholic are demented and insane; heretics shall have no place to conduct their assemblies; it established civil marriage rules and codified ancient laws called natural law such as all men are born free.
Benedict of Nursia is so scandalized by the actions of the Roman Church that he withdrew to Monte Cassino establishing the famous Benedictine rule. It placed the monks under the control of an abbot, made each house autonomous in a loose federation and provided for careful recruiting and probation.
A great swamp covered Sumer the once garden of Eden and the cradle of European civilization and Mesopotamia is lost from memory.
530
Dioscorus (530-530) is elected bishop of Rome as a large majority of the Roman clergy objected to John I bishop of Rome naming his successor, Boniface. Based on tradition and canon law Dioscorus is the legitimate bishop of Rome and Boniface bishop of Rome is the anti-bishop. Boniface II (530-532) a Germanic rich man and anti-bishop of Rome is elected to by many of the same people who elected Dioscorus bishop of Rome. The Roman senate is so outraged by such unconstitutional behavior they forbid discussion of the succession during the current reign. Any actions taken by this anti-bishop of Rome who obtained the papacy by fraud are rendered inappropriate.
The ancient spear of Longinous is venerated in the Basilica of Constantine. It is claimed to drip blood when held aloft and its possession carried the right to the throne.
532
Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople signed an Eternal Peace Treaty with Persia securing the eastern border and allowing him to put down the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa and it took from 533 to 548 to complete the task. He went on to attack the Ostrogoth (Eastern Goth) in Italy and achieved their destruction in 552.
533
John II (533-535) is elected Bishop of Rome after months of intrigue, corruption and bribery. Even funds collected for the poor are squandered to obtain votes. The Ostrogothic King of Italy issued a decree that under pain of severe penalties of future improper practices in papal elections. John bishop of Rome is accused of contradiction of previous Papal doctrine in proclaiming Rome as the head of all the churches.
King Theudebert I (533-548 son King Theuderich I (511-533) ruled Austrasia the district north East of Neustria (Paris, France).
534
The Eastern Wei Dynasty is (534-549)
535
The Western Wei Dynasty is (535-557)
St. Agapitus I (535-536) an aristocratic son of a priest is elected bishop of Rome. He rejected the doctrine of the bishop of Rome designating his successor. He decreed that Arians converted to Roman orthodoxy could never hold clerical office. St. Symmachus bishop of Rome (498-514) a pagan convert as a result of this decree could not become a bishop of Rome. He reiterated again this year that canon law did not allow a converted Arian priest to continue in office.
536
St Silverius (536-537) born at Frosinone son Hormisdas bishop of Rome (514-523) is elected bishop of Rome after the Roman clergy is terrorized to elect him by Theodadah, last Ostrogothic King of Italy. Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople through his general Belisarius occupied Rome on December 10, and induce Silverius (536-537) bishop of Rome to stand down. He is stripped of his rank and demoted to a monk and deported to Patara, southwest Anatolia.
537
Anti-bishop of Rome Vigilius (537-555) is elected while bishop of Rome St Silverius (536-537) still lives. Bishop Vigilious is horrified when Silverius (536-537) bishop of Rome is allowed to return to Rome by Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople. Vigilius (537-555) anti-bishop of Rome placed Silverius (536-537) the rightful bishop of Rome under guard and deported him to Palmaria in the Gulf of Gaeta where a confession is extracted and the bishop of Rome is murdered. Saint Silverius (536-537) bishop of Rome is later classified a martyr but the anti-bishop of Rome Vigilius (537-555) is not classified as a fraud by the Roman Catholic Church. Intrigue and murder to obtain the Papacy or a Kingship for that matter is a fairly common practice. Boniface II bishop of Rome (530-517) had named Vigilius (537-555) as his successor but withdrew the nomination in face of a storm of protest. The Great See's of Milan, Ravenna and Aquileja rejected this anti-bishop of Rome and even minor Sicilian bishops ignored the papacy for years on end. Empress Theodora had made a secret pact with Vigilius (537-555) bishop of Rome that she would secure the papacy for him if he would disavow the Council of Chalcedon (451).
540
The King of Persia broke the Eternal Peace Treaty and attacked the Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople and his Empire penetrating to the Mediterranean Sea. Justinian is now waging war on three fronts.
Legon refers to a comet recorded in Gaul and this records the beginning of the dark ages in Europe. Tree ring analysis suggests some catastrophic event effected the weather this year.
541
Black Death or Bubonic Plague (Bacillus Yersinia Pestis) was called the Justinian Plague after the Byzantine Emperior Justinian. The plague is believed to have originated in Ethiopia and Egypt and at its peak was killing 10,000 people a day. Some say 1/4 of the Mediterranean perished or about 25 million people.
542
Plague struck Constantinople and after four months more than half the population had died, some three hundred thousand people.
543
Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople with the backing of Vigilius (537-555) anti-bishop of Rome condemned the Three Chapters supporting the two natures Christology. The Eastern Bishops endorsed the edict but the Western Church reacted violently.
545
The anti-bishop of Rome Vigilius (537-555) refused to support Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople position so he is arrested and deported to Sicily.
547
There appears to be a mass migration of the Angles or Engles from north of the Eyder River to Britain starting about this time.
Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople ordered Vigilius bishop of Rome (537-555) brought from Sicily to Constantinople for trial. The bishop of Rome secretly promised Justinian and Theodora that he would condemn the Three Chapters.
548
King Theudebald (548-555) son King Theudebert I (533-548 ruled Austrasia the district north East of Neustria (Paris, France).
549
This is consider the final year of the Roman Christian sponsored Gladiator Games that had been conducted for the past three hundred years. The stopping of these violent barbaric killing games are stopped because of economic decline rather than any moral or religious change of heart.
550
The Northern Qi Dynasty is (550-577)
Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople attacked the Visigoth (Western Goth) Kingdom in southern Spain. To maintain his gains he established Viceroys, called Exarchs, with full powers. A synod of African Papa's excommunicated Vigilius (537-555) anti-bishop of Rome who then excommunicated members of his own Roman entourage who sided with the Africans.
552
The Mongol Avars reinforced by Huns and Slav-Bulgars migrated into the plains of the Tisza after their eastern Asiatic state had been destroyed by the Turkomen tribes. Touchueh chieftains united to become the Turks freeing themselves from the domination of the Mongols. The Turks effectively replaced the Tartars as the masters of the East-West trade route.
553
Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople called a council to Systematize the Roman Catholic Faith with the Orthodox Christian faith in 548 and they finally met this year in Constantinople. The Three Chapters Council, as it is called, met to condemn three theologians. Virgilius bishop of Rome (537-555) refused to attend the World Council of Christians or approve the conciliar decision. He issued his own proposition but it is rejected by the Church. Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople tabled the secret documents of the bishop of Rome and had him excommunicated from the Christian Church. For opposing the General Council of the Church the bishop of Rome is brutally maltreated, and exiled to an island. He eventually recants his evil ways saying God had opened his eyes, and supports the Council before he died.
554
St. Brendan (484-577) of Ireland and 17 other monks set sail for the west from Ireland. The Navigatio Saint Brendani Abatis (Voyage of Saint Brendan) published in the 9th century, resulted in an island being recorded in the Atlantic Ocean called St. Brendan's Island. The Brendan voyage lasted 7 years, and they discovered a beautiful land that they called "The Promised Land of the Saints". Some suggest the land was America, most likely Virginia. The Ogham writings discovered in West Virginia suggests monks were in Virginia about this time verifying the Brendan account. Some say the Brendan saga loses credibility because it claims Brendan and company were "raised up on the back of sea monsters", This is not so absurd as it sounds if you have ever been in a small boat in a 45 foot swell, "they passed by crystals that rose to the sky", an iceburg looks strangely like crystals, and we were "pelted with flaming, foul smelling rocks by the inhabitants of a large Island of their route", volcanic eruptions fits this description very well. The expedition traveled inland (Virginia) using a guide so the must have encountered the aboriginal Peoples.
556
Pelagius (556-561) a Roman noble born rich is appointed bishop of Rome being the nominee of the Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople. No election is held and the Constantinople is assumed to have grudgingly assented. Many nobles and clergy withdrew communion with this bishop of Rome. No Papa's would consecrate his appointment until Perugia and Ferentino are convinced. Northern Italy renounced communion with him over his condemnation of the Three Chapters. It is more likely they refused to support a bishop who is subordinate to Constantinople. Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople firmly established the dependence of the papacy of Rome on the state expressed in the practice of payment of tribute for confirmation of any elected bishop of Rome. It is made very clear that the bishop of Rome is subordinate to the bishop of Constantinople. This Church practice continued until 741.
557
The Chen Dynasty (557-588) is included in the Northern and Southern Dynasty Period.
The Northern Zhou Dynasty is (557-588)
558
King Chlothar (Lothair) (558-561) son King Clovia I (481-511) united the Franks of Austrasia and Neustria under one Kingship.
560
In Southern Russia the Altaic Turks are driving the Mongol Avar tribe from the Altaic region westward into the Antes in Bessarabia. The Altaic Turks, conquered Hunno-Bulgar (Slav) tribes and Caucasian aborigines to became the Mongolian Khazars by 650 A.D. Those who did not submit to Khazar Mongol rule are driven north and west.
St. Isadore reports seeing the wood of Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat.
561
John III alias Catelinus (661-574) son of a Roman Senator and Provincial Governor and pro easterner acceptable to Justinian I (527-565), the Emperor of Constantinople is elected bishop of Rome and is subordinate to the bishop of Constantinople. The Churches of Italy, Africa, Spain and Gaul united to resist any attempt to force them to accept Greek doctrines.
King Sigibert I (561-575) son King Chlothar (558-561) ruled Austrasia the district north East of Neustria (Paris, France). King Chilperich (561-584) son King Chlothar (558-561) ruled Neustria the district of Paris (France).
562
Peace is achieved with Persia and the Slav's from the Balkans threatened the northern boarder of the Empire.
563
Columbia, known as the Dove of the Church from Ireland brought Christianity to the Scots and Picts in the Highlands. He is also attributed with defeating the Lochness monster. He recorded encountering a Pict King in his fort near Inverness.
568
The Langobard tribe originated in Scandinavia. The Lombard's (Langobards) under King Alboin who settled in the Danube this century penetrated into Northern Italy, Austria-Hungary and established Pavia as their capital. Their army included 20,000 Germanic-Saxon and some Slavs. These Germanic speaking Aryan (Arya) slaughtered the Native inhabitants and seized their lands. They gradually expanded south towards Ravenna and Rome. Gradually they converted to Romanism and they took Roman titles and names and accepted the Roman Catholic Church. They however are never trusted by the Roman Catholic Church. They however retained their Arian law independent from Roman law.
570
The Lombards overran Gaul remaining for nearly two centuries.
Mahomet (Muhammad) aka Abu al-Qasim Muhammad Ibn Abd Allah Ibn Abd al-Muttalib Ibn Hashim (570-632) is born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia about 570 and would be responsible for the creation of Islam and the Muslim's sacred book the Koran. He was an orphan raised by his grandfather and uncle. He grew up and was considered to be a modest and respected businessman who rejected polytheism turning to the one God of worshiped by Jewish and Christian communities.
575
Benedict I (575-579) a Roman is elected bishop of Rome and
is clearly subordinate to the bishop of Constantinople.
King Childeber II (575-596) son King Sigibert I (561-575) ruled Austrasia
the district north East of Neustria (Paris, France).
579
The Lombard army began to siege Rome and Emperor Justin II (565-578) sent relief at the request of the bishop of Rome but it is short-lived. The siege intensified and famine spread throughout the city. Pelagius II (579-590) a Roman Goth is elected bishop of Rome while the city is under siege. His elevation however must be confirmed by the Emperor of Constantople. This bishop of Rome referred to the bishop of Constantinople as the Universal Patriarch (Pope) and himself as the servant of God's servants.
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