John (servant of God)

Also known as: John · Family: Roman Church · Role: counsellor · First appears: Book II · Chap. XIX

Life events

c. 627 · John sent letters correcting the Scots’ observance of Easter according to the Council of Nicaea.(Book II · Chap. XIX)
- With: John (Pope elect) Tomianus Columbanus Cromanus (bishop) Dinnaus Baithanus Cromanus (priest) Ernianus Laistranus Scellanus Segenus Saranus Hilarus John (chief of the notaries)
- “Likewise John, who succeeded Severinus, successor to the same Honorius, being yet but Pope elect, sent to them letters of great authority and erudition for the purpose of correcting the same error; evidently showing, that Easter Sunday is to be found between the fifteenth of the moon and the twenty-first, as was approved in the Council of Nicaea.”
c. 627 · John admonished the Scots to reject the Pelagian heresy, which was reportedly reviving among them.(Book II · Chap. XIX)
- With: John (Pope elect) Tomianus Columbanus Cromanus (bishop) Dinnaus Baithanus Cromanus (priest) Ernianus Laistranus Scellanus Segenus Saranus Hilarus John (chief of the notaries)
- “He also in the same epistle admonished them to guard against the Pelagian heresy, and reject it, for he had been informed that it was again springing up among them.”

with John (Pope elect) (John addressed a letter to John, the servant of God.) “Likewise John, who succeeded Severinus, successor to the same Honorius, being yet but Pope elect, sent to them letters of great authority and erudition for the purpose of correcting the same error; evidently showing, that Easter Sunday is to be found between the fifteenth of the moon and the twenty-first, as was approved in the Council of Nicaea. He also in the same epistle admonished them to guard against the Pelagian heresy, and reject it, for he had been informed that it was again springing up among them. The beginning of the epistle was as follows: ‘To our most beloved and most holy Tomianus, Columbanus, Cromanus, Dinnaus, and Baithanus, bishops; to __ Cromanus, Ernianus, Laistranus, Scellanus, and Segenus, priests; to Saranus and the rest of the Scottish doctors and abbots, Hilarus, the arch-presbyter, and vice-gerent of the holy Apostolic See; John, the deacon, and elect in the name of God; likewise John, the chief of the notaries and vice-gerent of the holy Apostolic See, and John, the servant of God, and counsellor of the same Apostolic See.’”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.