Consecration of Pope Pelagius I

Date: April 16, 556 • Location: Rome, Italy

Emperor Justinian I approved and consecrated Pope Pelagius I.

Justinian I, also known as Justinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 527 to 565. His reign was marked by the ambitious but only partly realized renovatio imperii. This ambition was expressed by the partial recovery of the territories of the defunct Western Roman Empire.