Gelasius I

Gelasius I. succeeded Felix III. as Pope in 492.

He widened the breach between the Eastern and Western Churches by his quarrel with Acacius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and he also asserted his superiority over the Emperors and the Genera] Councils. He died in 496, and was canonised.

Gelasius II. was the successor to Pascal II. in 1118, the Emperor Henry V. opposing his election. Cencio di Frangipani seized him, but a popular rising led to his release. He had, however, to leave Rome, and Maurice Bourdin was put into his place under the title of Gregory VIII. Gelasius excommunicated his rival at a council held at Capua, and secretly returned to Rome. He was soon driven into exile, and died in 1119 at the Abbey of Cluny in France.