Pope Conon
?–687 CE · Sicily
Conon was reportedly the son of an officer in the Thracesian army and educated in Sicily before serving in Rome's clergy. Elderly and reputedly of striking, venerable appearance, he was elected as a compromise candidate after a disputed succession in which rival factions backed an archpriest and a military-favored deacon. His brief, frail pontificate was troubled by the maneuvering of an ambitious papal official, the deacon (later antipope) Paschal, who had sought the office through bribery of the Ravenna exarch. Conon fell ill almost immediately and died after about eleven months, leaving the succession again contested.
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Sicily
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About Sicily
Sicily, off the southern tip of Italy, is the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean and a region of Italy. Greek colonists, above all at Syracuse, settled it from about 750 BCE, and it became Rome's first province outside the Italian peninsula. Byzantine from 535, it was part of the church that produced early medieval popes such as Leo II, a Sicilian by birth. Muslim rule followed from the 9th century, then a Norman county from 1071 and kingdom from 1130. Jews lived on the island from Roman times; under Spanish rule its community, estimated at 25,000 to 37,000, was expelled in 1492, while about 9,000 converted and stayed.
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In the same tradition
Pope St. Gregory II, Pope St. Sergius I, Pope John V, Pope St. Leo II
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Graeco-Roman world
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