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Vincent of Capua

VINCENZO DA CAPUA

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Also known as: Latin: Vincentius de Capua

VINCENT OF CAPUA. - A priest of the Roman Church, whom in 325 Pope St. Sylvester sent as legate to the First Council of Nicaea, together with the priest Vitus and the bishop Hosius.

He was bishop of Capua when Pope Julius I sent him to Milan to the emperor Constantius, from whom he obtained the convocation of the Council of Sardica (343), in which he took part. He was also legate of Pope Liberius at the Synod of Arles of 353, where he had the weakness to subscribe to the condemnation of St. Athanasius, deplored by Liberius in a letter to St. Eusebius of Vercelli. Pope Damasus attests that he never renounced the Catholic faith, but rather fought the Arians at the Council of Rimini (359). After 360 there is no further record of him.

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BIBL.: Sozomen, Hist. Eccl., I, 17; Tillemont, VIII, pp. 117-120; Lanzoni, p. 201 ff.; Fliche-Martin-Fruta, III, pp. 137, 145 ff.

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By Francesco Russo

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), coll. 1439–1440.

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Russo, Francesco. “Vincenzo da Capua.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, coll. 1439–1440. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/vincenzo-da-capua.

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Russo, Francesco. “Vincenzo da Capua.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, coll. 1439–1440. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/vincenzo-da-capua.

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  author    = {Russo, Francesco},
  title     = {Vincenzo da Capua},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XII},
  pages     = {1439--1440},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1954},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/vincenzo-da-capua}
}

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