Pope Constantine
?–715 CE · Syria
A Syrian by birth, Constantine is best remembered as the last pope to visit Constantinople, traveling there in 710-711 at the summons of Emperor Justinian II. The visit, marked by elaborate ceremony in which the emperor reportedly prostrated himself before the pope, produced a measure of compromise over the disputed Quinisext canons. Constantine's reign also saw the violent fall of Justinian and shifting Byzantine emperors. At home he faced and resolved a dispute with the see of Ravenna over its claims to independence. His pontificate marks a late high point of papal-imperial diplomacy before relations sharply deteriorated under his successors.
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About Syria
Syria, the historic region of the Levant centred on the modern Syrian Arab Republic. It was one of the earliest heartlands of Christianity, home to the Antiochene theological tradition and to a rich Syriac-language church.
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