Pope Adeodatus II
?–676 CE · Rome
Adeodatus II, a Roman by birth, had been a monk of the monastery of Saint Erasmus on the Caelian Hill before his election. His brief pontificate is sparsely documented. He is remembered for his personal generosity and care for the poor and for pilgrims, and for confirming privileges to monasteries, including reportedly the abbey of Saint Peter at Canterbury. He maintained the conciliatory relations with Constantinople established by his predecessors during a period when the Monothelite dispute was easing. The thinness of surviving records leaves much of his reign obscure.
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Rome passed from weakened Western emperors into Ostrogothic hands under Theodoric (493) and then was bitterly contested during the Byzantine reconquest (535–554), yet its bishop — Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) — steered the church, organized missions, and preserved classical learning through the turmoil.
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Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
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