Agatho 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L VII |
Dates | 680 (taq) / 680 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 130 |
Variant Names | Agathon |
Religion | Christian; Anti-monothelete |
Locations | Iustinopolis (Istria) (birthplace); Grado (N. Italy); Grado (N. Italy) (officeplace); Aquileia (Istria); Aquileia (Istria) (officeplace); Rome |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Aquileia (Istria) (office); Bishop, Aquileia (Istria) (office); Patriarch, Aquileia (Istria) (office) |
Textual Sources | Constantinople, Third Council of (Sixth Ecumenical Council), ed. R. Riedinger, Concilium Universale Constantinopolitanum Tertium, ACO II.2. 1 (Berlin, 1990-1992); also cited from Mansi XI passim (conciliar); John the Deacon, Cronaca veneziana, ed. G. Monticolo, Fonti per la storia d'Italia 9 (Rome, 1890), pp. 57-171 (chronicle); Origo Civitatum Italiae seu Venetiarum (Chronicon Altinate et Chronicon Gradense), ed. R. Cessi, Fonti per la storia d'Italia 73 (Rome, 1933) (chronicle) |
Bishop of Aquileia in Istria; he was one of the hundred and twenty five Western bishops who attended the Council of Rome at Easter, 680, and who subscribed the decree condemning monotheletism: Riedinger, p. 154, line 9 (= Mansi XI 311- 312) (Ἀγάθων ἐλάχιστος ἐπίσκοπος τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Ἀκυλίας ἐπαρχίας Ἰστρίας; the old Latin version printed in Riedinger, p. 155, 7, calls his see "
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