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GELASIUS , the name of two popes . GELASrus I., See also:pope from 492 to 496, was the successor of See also:Felix III . He confirmed the estrangement between the Eastern and Western churches by insisting on the removal of the name of Acacius, See also:bishop of See also:Constantinople, from the diptychs . He is the author of De duabus in Christo naturis adversus Eutychen et Nestorium . A See also:great number of his letters has also come down to us . His name has been attached to a See also:Liber SacramentoruM anterior to that of St See also:Gregory, but he can have composed only certain parts of it . As to the so-called Decretum Gelasii de libris recipiendis et non recipiendis, it also is a compilation of documents anterior to Gelasius, and it is difficult to determine Gelasius's contributions to it . At all events, as we know it, it is of See also:Roman origin, and 6th-See also:century or later . (L . |
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