INNOCENT I., pope from 402 to 417, was the son of Pope Anastasius I. During his papacy the siege of Rome by Alaric (408) took place; the pope was, however, absent from Rome on a mission to Honorius at Ravenna at the time of the sack in 41o. He maintained and extended the authority of the Roman see as the ultimate resort for the settlement of all disputes; his still extant communications to Victricius of Rouen, Exuperius of Toulouse, Alexander of Antioch and others, as well as his action on the appeal made to him by Chrysostom against Theophilus of Alexandria, are examples of his intervention. He took a decided view on the Pelagian controversy, confirming the decisions of the synod of the province of pro-consular Africa held in Carthage in 416, which had been sent to him. He wrote in the same year in a similar sense to the fathers of the Numidian synod of Mileve who, Augustine being one of their number, had addressed him. He died on March 12, 417, and in the Roman Church is com memorated as a confessor with Saints Nazarius, Celsus and Victor, martyrs, on July 28. His successor was Zosimus.