Pope John V
?–686 CE · Antioch
John V was of Syrian descent, born near Antioch, part of a notable wave of Eastern-origin popes in this period reflecting refugees and settlers fleeing the Arab conquests. As a deacon he had served as a papal legate at the Third Council of Constantinople, where he helped represent Rome in condemning Monothelitism. Elected by the unified acclamation of clergy, militia, and people of Rome, he was the first pope consecrated under the streamlined procedure won by Benedict II. Illness marked most of his short reign. He confirmed ecclesiastical privileges, notably regarding Sardinia, before his death.
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About Antioch
Antioch, on the Orontes at the site of modern Antakya in southern Turkey, was founded around 300 BCE by Seleucus I, was a Seleucid capital and then capital of Roman Syria. It was a centre of Hellenistic Judaism and of Greek rhetoric, where Libanius taught. According to the New Testament, followers of Jesus were first called Christians there; Ignatius was an early bishop, John Chrysostom was born there, and the city became the seat of one of the great patriarchates. Arab forces took it in 637 for the caliphate; the Byzantines recaptured it in 969, and after Seljuk rule it was a Crusader principality from 1098 until the Mamluk sultan Baybars razed it in 1268.
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