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Pope St. Agatho

Pope St. Agatho

?–681 CE · Sicily, Italy

Agatho, a Greek-speaking Sicilian who reportedly lived to a great age, presided over one of the most consequential events of the era: the Third Council of Constantinople (680-681). His doctrinal letter to the emperor, affirming two wills and two operations in Christ against Monothelitism, was read at the council and accepted as a definitive statement of orthodox faith, a text later cited in debates over papal authority. Agatho also restored relations with the imperial court and secured relief from the tax customarily paid on papal consecrations. He died before learning of the council's final triumph.

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Sicily, Italy

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About Sicily, Italy

Sicily, the large island off southern Italy. In the 7th-8th centuries its Greek-speaking, monastically dense church produced several popes of the so-called Byzantine papacy, including Agatho and Sergius I.

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