Papa Simako

Papa Simako (kwa Kilatini: Symmachus) alikuwa Papa kuanzia tarehe 22 Novemba 498 hadi kifo chake tarehe 19 Julai 514^[1]. Alitokea Sardinia, Italia^[2] akaja kubatizwa Roma.

Alimfuata Papa Anastasio II akafuatwa na Papa Hormisdas.

Kwa muda mrefu alipaswa kukabili upinzani mkali wa antipapa Laurentius^[3][4][5] na wafuasi wake wengi^[6].

Alikomboa Wakristo waliofanywa watumwa na Wavandali na kusaidia waliokimbia dhuluma yao.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa kwenye tarehe ya kifo chake^[7].

1. ↑ https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.index.html#holy-father
2. ↑ https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.index.html#holy-father
3. ↑ Hughes, Philip (1947). A History of the Church. Juz. la 1. Sheed & Ward. uk. 319. Iliwekwa mnamo 21 Novemba 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)
4. ↑ Davis 1989, p. 43f; The original Latin in Mansi 1762, p. 301: quod tandem aequitas in Symmacho invenit, et cognitio veritatis
5. ↑ Despite Laurentius being classed as an antipope, it is his portrait that continues to hang in the papal gallery in the Church of St. Paul's, not that of Symmachus.
6. ↑ https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/91644
7. ↑ Martyrologium Romanum: ex Decreto Sacrosancti oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II instauratum auctoritate Ioannis Pauli P.P. II promulgatum, Romae 2001, ISBN 8820972107