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| Facts about forgery |
| Date Created |
752 CE |
Place Created |
St. Denis Abbey, Paris |
| Perpetrator(s) |
Pepin the Short |
| Original Purpose |
To strengthen the claimed legitimacy of the other three forgeries (Donation of Constantine, Letter of St. Peter, Chair of St. Peter) but detailing an unbroken like of alleged Vicars of Christ from the time of St. Peter. |
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The forgery known as Liber Pontificalis was commissioned by Pepin the Short as part of his campaign to eliminate all doubt and opposition to the legitimacy of the religion created by his family--the Catholic Church. |
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While Pepin now had the Donation of Constantine to claim power shifted from Constantinople to Rome before 325, the Chair of St. Peter and the Letter of St. Peter, he needed a compelling story that proved the unbroken line of Vicars since the time of St. Peter to the Pippins now as Popes. |
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The monks of St. Denis produced a brilliant forgery by 752/753 whereupon it was widely translated and published, becoming one of the first "best sellers" fictions of the Western world. Its attraction was not simply because is provided a claimed chronological history of Vicars of Christ back to St. Peter --it was well written with a storyline and included both good and bad characters. |
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The Patriarchs of Constantinople were obsessed in eliminating conflicting stories--but the Liber Pontificalis embraced good and less than perfect characters -- and extremely rare feature of any religious text, much less the purported lists of unbroken succession. Such frequent self depreciation of some former "Popes" only served to support the apparent credibility of the codex. |
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The word Bishop is an English word derived from the Greek title (e)piskopos, which was changed in usage to biskop(os) and then Bishop. |
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