Pope Felix III dies on January 3,…
March 492 CE
Pope Felix III dies on January 3, 492; Gelasius succeeds him.
Gelasius' election on March 1, 492, is a gesture for continuity: the new pope, having inherited Felix's struggles with Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I and the patriarch of Constantinople, exacerbates them by insisting on the removal of the name of the late Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, from the diptychs, in spite of every ecumenical gesture by the current, otherwise quite orthodox patriarch Euphemius.