Editing Pope Boniface V (section)

==Pontificate==
Like Adeodatus I, Boniface V opposed [[Pope Gregory I|Gregory I]]'s pro-monastic policy. For that reason, he prescribed that [[acolyte]]s should not presume to [[translation of relics|translate the relics]] of [[Martyr#Christianity|martyrs]] and that, in the [[Basilica of Saint John Lateran]], they should not take the place of [[deacon]]s in administering [[baptism]].<ref name="Attwater"/> Boniface made certain enactments relative to the rights of [[sanctuary]], and that he ordered the ecclesiastical [[Notary public|notaries]] to obey the laws of the empire on the subject of [[will (law)|wills]]. Boniface completed and consecrated the cemetery of [[Saint Nicomedes]] on the [[Via Nomentana]].  In the ''Liber Pontificalis'', Boniface is described as "the mildest of men", whose chief distinction was his great love for the clergy.<ref name="ce"/>

[[Bede]] writes of the pope's affectionate concern for the English Church. The "letters of exhortation" which he is said to have addressed to Archbishop [[Mellitus]] of Canterbury and Bishop [[Justus]] of Rochester are [[Lost literary work|no longer extant]], but certain other letters of his have been preserved. One is written to Justus after he had succeeded Mellitus as [[archbishop of Canterbury]] in 624, conferring the [[pallium]] upon him and directing him to "ordain bishops as occasion should require." According to Bede, Pope Boniface also sent letters to King [[Edwin of Northumbria]] in 625 urging him to embrace the Christian faith, and to Edwin's Christian wife, [[Æthelburg of Kent]], exhorting her to use her best endeavours for the conversion of her husband.<ref name="ce"/>

Boniface V was buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica]] on 25 October 625.<ref name="ce"/> He was succeeded by [[Honorius I]].<ref>{{Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Pope Honorius I|inline=1|prescript=}}</ref>