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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 146 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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bishop of See also:Rome from 657 to 672, succeeded See also:Eugenius I. and was followed by Adeodatus. In the monothelite controversy then raging he acted with cautious reserve, refraining at least from See also:express condemnation of the Typus of See also:Constans II. The See also:chief See also:episode in his uneventful pontificate was the visit of Constans to Rome; the See also:pope received him " almost with religious honours," a deference which he requited by stripping all the brazen ornaments of the See also:city—even to the tiles of the See also:Pantheon—and sending them to See also:Constantinople. See also:Archbishop See also:Theodore was sent to See also:Canterbury by Vitalian.

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