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The precious experience that he gained in civil administration during a period marked by serious problems, the relationships he had had in this post with the Byzantines and the universal respect that he acquired induced Pope Pelagius to appoint him deacon and to send him to Constantinople as his "apocrisarius" - today one would say "Apostolic Nuncio" in order to help overcome the last traces of the Monophysite controversy and above all to obtain the Emperor's support in the effort to check the Lombard invaders.
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Roman apocrisarius at Constantinople, that his subscription should be returned to him if the Apostolic See disapproved of it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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We first meet with him at Constantinople, in the company of Agapitus I, who, just before his death in that city, appointed Pelagius apocrisarius or nuncio of the Roman Church (536).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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(apocrisarius) to Constantinople in the reign of Justinian I
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
chained_bear commented on the word apocrisarius
"Having summarized the historically Spartan diet of the monks, Udalric of Cluny proceeds to tell of the apocrisarius, the treasure keeper, charged with supplying the monks 'if he can lay his hands on the ingredients, with well-peppered fishes, and piment.'"
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 276
December 6, 2016