Papa Zakaria

Papa Zakaria alikuwa Papa kuanzia tarehe 3 Desemba 741 hadi kifo chake tarehe 15 Machi 752https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.index.html#holy-father. Alitokea Ugirikihttps://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.index.html#holy-father au Santa Severina, Calabria, Italia, labda akiwa na asili ya Balkani.

Jina la baba yake lilikuwa Polichronios. 

Alimfuata Papa Gregori III akafuatwa na Papa Stefano IIHis elected successor, Stephen, died within days, and Zachary was finally succeeded by Pope Stephen II. 

Anasifiwa sana na wanahistoria mbalimbali kwa jinsi alivyokabili vizuri mazingira magumu na ya hatariChurch historian Johann Peter Kirsch said of Zachary: "In a troubled era Zachary proved himself to be an excellent, capable, vigorous, and charitable successor of Peter." Peter Partner called Zachary a skilled diplomat, "perhaps the most subtle and able of all the Roman pontiffs, in this dark corridor in which the Roman See hovered just inside the doors of the Byzantine world." Cfr. Partner, Peter. The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance, University of California Press, 1972, p. 17], ISBN 9780520021815, akiongoza familia ya Mungu kwa umakinifu na busara ya hali ya juu https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/91636.

Alifaulu kupatana na Walombardi walioteka sehemu kubwa ya Italia au kupunguza ukali wao, aliwaelekeza Wafaranki namna ya kutawala kwa haki na kumhimiza Pipino Mfupi kujifanya rasmi mfalme wao, alifanya makabila ya Kijerumani yawe na makanisa zaidi, aliunga mkono umisionari wa Bonifas huko UjerumaniWansbrough OSB, Henry. "St. Boniface, Monk and Missioner", Prayer and Thought in Monastic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Benedicta Ward SLG, (Santha Bhattacharji, Dominic Mattos, Rowan Williams, eds.), A&C Black, 2014, p. 133, ISBN|9780567082954, alidumisha umoja na Kanisa la Mashariki, alipinga sera ya kaisari Konstantino V dhidi ya picha takatifu, alidhibiti mwelekeo wa kutunga majina kwa malaika na alikataza biashara ya watumwa mjini Roma akiwakomboa waliokwisha kuletwaAnnali d'Italia: Dall'anno 601 dell'era volare fino all'anno 840, by Lodovico Antonio Muratori, Giuseppe Catalani, Monaco (1742); page 298..

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu. 

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 15 MachiMartyrologium Romanum.

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko
Orodha ya Mapapa

Maandishi yake
Barua na hati zake zilitolewa na Jacques Paul Migne katika Patrologia Latina lxxxix. p. 917–960.

Tanbihi

Marejeo

Delogu, Paolo (2000). "Zaccaria, santo",  Enciclopedia dei papi Treccani. 
Duchesne, Louis, [https://archive.org/details/duchesne01 Le Liber Pontificalis]: texte, introduction et commentaire par L. Duchesne Tome I (Paris: E. Thorin 1886), pp. 426–439. (in Latin)

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