Pope St. Leo II
?–683 CE · Sicily
A learned Sicilian fluent in both Greek and Latin and noted for his skill in music and eloquence, Leo II reigned less than a year. His chief act was to ratify the decrees of the Third Council of Constantinople, which had condemned Monothelitism. In doing so he confirmed the council's anathema against his predecessor Pope Honorius I — language later much debated, since Leo censured Honorius for negligence in failing to suppress heresy rather than for teaching it. Leo also worked to improve church music and translated relics of martyrs. His brief pontificate left a modest but significant doctrinal legacy.
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Sicily, the large island off the southern tip of Italy. In late antiquity it was a Greek-speaking, monastically rich part of the Latin and then Byzantine church and produced several popes of the early medieval period.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Pope St. Leo II’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Christian world
- Isidore of Seville· 560 CE–636 CE
- John Climacus· 579 CE–649 CE
- Maximus the Confessor· 580 CE–662 CE
- Isaac the Syrian· 613 CE–700 CE
- Andrew of Crete· 650 CE–740 CE
- Bede the Venerable· 673 CE–735 CE
- Pope St. Agatho· –681 CE
- Pope St. Benedict II· –685 CE
- Pope John V· –686 CE
- Pope Donus· –678 CE
- Pope Adeodatus II· –676 CE
- Pope St. Vitalian· –672 CE
- Pope St. Sergius I· –701 CE
- Pope John VI· –705 CE
- Pope John VII· –707 CE
- Pope Sisinnius· –708 CE
- Pope St. Eugene I· –657 CE
- Pope St. Martin I· –655 CE
- Pope Constantine· –715 CE
- Pope Theodore I· –649 CE
- Pope John IV· –642 CE
- Pope Severinus· –640 CE
- Pope Honorius I· –638 CE
- Pope Boniface V· –625 CE
Islamic world
Buddhist world
Graeco-Roman world
Rulers world
- Constans II· 630 CE–668 CE
- K'ak' Uti' Witz' K'awiil (Smoke Imix)· 604 CE–695 CE
- Yuknoom Ch'een II (Yuknoom the Great)· 600 CE–686 CE
- K'inich Janaab' Pakal I (Pakal the Great)· 603 CE–683 CE
- Munmu of Silla· 626 CE–681 CE
- Marwan I· 623 CE–685 CE
- Emperor Gaozong of Tang· 628 CE–683 CE
- Yazdegerd III· 624 CE–651 CE
- Bajlaj Chan K'awiil (Ruler 1)· 625 CE–692 CE
- Emperor Tenmu· 631 CE–686 CE
- Wu Zetian· 624 CE–705 CE
- Yazid I· 646 CE–683 CE
- Constantine IV· 652 CE–685 CE
- Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan· 644 CE–705 CE
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