Understanding vicarius filii dei (Part 2) Application and misuse of Vicarius filii dei title with false document by Pope Leo IX
koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)
Visiting Professor
Kyungpook National University
Sangju Campus
South Korea
Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College
Australia
8 June 2011
It was well known by Andreas Helwig (1630) and others that this document of the Donation of Constantine was a fabricated one and modern catholics indicate the fabrication to be in the seventh century of our era.
The document is online.
What is interesting about the document and title is that despite the fact that it is false, it was used by Pope Leo IX to establish his own position.
A number of ecclessiastical and theological offenses are here committed and our diagram attempts to point them out.
Even though it was pointed out to Bacchiocchi about the use of this title from the Donation of Constantine, he did not edit his own position, but keep to his cover-up of photos of presumed vicarius filii dei on papal tiaras, printing editions in the Seventh-day Adventist church and other side-issues like the difference between a tiara and a mitre. Froom was mistakingly mistranslating and misinterpreting a paragraph in Andreas Helwig in which he explained how he discovered the title vicarius filii dei and its numbering. Froom and Bacchiocchi thought Helwig meant that he invented it and that it never existed before. More on this later.