Honorius
FLAVIUS (hon-ōr'ē-us), a Roman emperor; son of Theodosius the Great; born in A. D. 384. The chief events of his reign are the adoption of rigorous measures against paganism in 399; the invasion by Alaric in 400-403; another irruption of barbarians under Rhadagaisus, 405-406. Alaric marched on Rome and plundered it in 409, while Honorius shut himself up in Ravenna.
Some of the finest provinces provinces of the empire, Spain, Gaul, and Pannonia, were lost in this reign. He died in A. D. 423.
HONORIUS I., Pope; succeeded Boniface V. as Bishop of Rome in 625. His name is connected with the history of the paschal controversy in Ireland and with that of the early Anglo-Saxon Church. At the height of the Monothelite controversy Honorius, at the suggestion of Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople, abstained from condemning the new doctrines, and for his luke-warmness in so doing was stigmatized as a heretic at the Council of Constantinople (680).
He died in 638.
HONORIUS II., Pope; succeeded Calixtus II. in 1124, and at the same time, Thibauld was chosen by another party, under the name of Celestin; but he resigned the chair to his rival. He died in 1130.
HONORIUS III., was made Pope after Innocent III., in 1216. He died in 1227.
HONORIUS IV., a Roman; ascended the papal chair in 1285. He displayed great zeal for the Church, and promoted the crusades. He died in 1288.