Misdated Popes

The letter sent by Kyros of Alexandria to Sergios of Constantinople in 638 appears to contain a chronological contradiction: it implies that Sergios was aware before his death of the election of Severinus as the new bishop of Rome two months earlier. Given the travelling times in the seventh century, this is impossible. The problem originates in a mistake made by Louis Duchesne when calculating the chronology of the popes for his edition of the Liber pontificalis : for the period 619–49, all his dates are one year too late. This change of the chronological framework affects the interpretation of a number of documents

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• The Papacy and Byzantium in the Seventh- And Early Eighth-Century Sections of the Liber Pontificalis

  Open Access•Rosamond Mckitterick•Papers of the British School at…•2016

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• New Heresy for Old

  Daibhi O Croinin•Speculum•1985

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• Beds's Northumbrian dates again

  Susan E Wood, Susan Wood•The English Historical Review•1983

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• Bede and Northumbrian Chronology

  Dianne Kirby, D P KIRBY•The English Historical Review•1963

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