ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 12th of November BONIFACE III., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Pope Boniface III, of Roman extraction and the son of John Catadioce, was elected to succeed Sabinian after an interregnum of nearly a year; he was consecrated February 19, 607; he died November 12 of the same year. He had been ordained a deacon of the Roman Church, and in 603 sent by Gregory the Great as apocrisiarius, or legate, to the court of Constantinople, where, by his tact and prudence, he appears to have gained the favourable regard of the Emperor Phocas. After his elevation to the See of Rome, Boniface obtained a decree from Phocas, against Cyriacus, Bishop of Constantinople, by which it was ordained, that "the See of Blessed Peter the Apostle should be the head of all the Churches", and that the title of "Universal Bishop" belonged exclusively to the Bishop of Rome - an acknowledgment somewhat similar to that made by Justinian ei