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Sabinian I, Pope of Rome
VI/VII Centuries
Born in Tuscany, Sabinian served as Gregory the Great's envoy to
Constantinople from 593-595. Gregory recalled him because he felt his
representative was not firm enough with Patriarch John IV the Faster, who
had begun to call himself the Ecumenical Patriarch. Sabinian succeeded
Gregory as pope in 604 but had to wait six months for imperial approval
before being consecrated. His papacy was marked by a famine, during which
he sold grain to alleviate hunger, and by threats of invasion from the
Lombards. When Sabinian died in 606, a mob blocked his funeral procession,
which went around the city walls to St. Peter's.
Karen Rae Keck
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