✚ Pope Reviews · № 45
Leo I
· 440 – 461 · 21 yrs · died
Talked Attila the Hun out of sacking Rome. The Vandals, three years later, only promised not to burn it.
Did
- Met Attila in 452 and Rome was spared, for reasons historians still argue about.
- Wrote the Tome of Leo, adopted at Chalcedon in 451 as the definition of Christ's two natures.
- Earned 'the Great', one of two popes to do so by consensus.
Didn't
- Stop the Vandals: Gaiseric looted Rome for two weeks in 455, though without fire or slaughter.
From the record
Pope Leo I, also known as Leo the Great, was Bishop of Rome from 29 September 440 until his death on 10 November 461.
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