Pope Boniface II
Boniface II was
pope from
530 to
532. He was by birth an
Ostrogoth, the first German chosen to be Pope, and he owed his election to the influence of the Gothic king
Athalaric. Boniface was chosen by his predecessor,
Pope Felix IV, who had been a strong adherent of the
Arian king. Boniface had for some time an
antipope, Dioscurus, who had the support of most of the priests of
Rome, but Dioscurus died only twenty-two days after his being chosen as antipope.