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AGAPETVE I

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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pope from 535 to 536. He was an enlightened pontiff and collaborated with See also:Cassiodorus in See also:founding at See also:Rome a library of ecclesiastical authors. See also:King Theodahad sent him on an See also:embassy to See also:Constantinople, where he died, after having deposed Anthimus, the monophysite See also:bishop of that See also:town, and ordained Menas his successor. •l,osPETUS II., pope from 946 to 955, at the See also:time when Alberic,son of Marozia, was governing the See also:independent See also:republic of Rome under the See also:title of " See also:prince and senator of the See also:Romans." See also:Agapetus, a See also:man of some force of See also:character, did his best to put a stop to the degradation into which the papacy had fallen, the so-called " Pornocracy," which lasted from the See also:accession of See also:Sergius III. in 904 to the deposition of See also:John XII. in 963. His See also:appeal to See also:Otto the See also:Great to intervene in. Rome remained without immediate effect, since Alberic's position was - too strong to be attacked, but it See also:bore See also:fruit after- his See also:death.

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