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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