Editing Pope Boniface I (section)

==Pontificate==
[[File:Gloria_in_excelsis_(Italy,_16th_century).jpg|thumb|Boniface I ordered that ''[[Gloria in excelsis Deo]]'' be sung on [[Maundy Thursday]] (16th century sheet music)]]
Boniface ordered the singing of the ''[[Gloria in excelsis Deo|Gloria in excelsis]]'' on [[Maundy Thursday]], and regulated several points of Church discipline. He reversed some of his predecessor's policies regarding church administration. He reduced the vicariate authority giving Patroclus, Bishop of Arles, jurisdiction over other Gallic sees and restored the metropolitan powers of the chief bishops of provinces. He supported Hilary, Archbishop of Narbonne, in his choice of a bishop of the vacant See of Lodeve, against Patroclus, who tried to install someone else. He also insisted that Maximus, Bishop of Valence, should be tried for his alleged crimes, not by a primate, but by a synod of the bishops of Gaul, and promised to sustain their decision.<ref name="ce"/>

Boniface supported Augustine in combating [[Pelagianism]], forwarding to him two Pelagian letters Boniface had received calumniating Augustine. In recognition of this solicitude, Augustine dedicated to Boniface his rejoinder contained in ''Contra duas Epistolas Pelagianoruin Libri quatuor''.<ref name="ce"/>  He persuaded Emperor [[Theodosius II]] to return [[Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum|Illyricum]] to Western jurisdiction and defended the rights of the [[Holy See]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://catholicsaints.info/butlers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-boniface-i-pope-and-confessor/| title = Butler, Alban", ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints'', 1866. CatholicSaints.Info. 26 October 2013. Web. 6 August 2018}}</ref>

Boniface I died 4 September 422, in Rome.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.archbalt.org/st-boniface-i/?print=print| title = St. Boniface I, Archdiocese of Baltimore}}</ref>