Pope
Pope Saint Leo the Great
Pope from 440 to 461
Pope Saint Leo the Great, who reigned as Roman Pontiff from 440–461.
Background
Pope Saint Leo I, one of only two popes called 'the Great' and a Doctor of the Church, defended the orthodox doctrine of the Incarnation in his Tome, accepted at the Council of Chalcedon (451), and famously persuaded Attila the Hun to spare Rome in 452.
Summary
Pope Saint Leo the Great, who reigned as Roman Pontiff from 440–461.
Papacy began
440
Papacy ended
461
Birth name
Leo
