# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:27:15.010Z

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description: "A papal tenure born from imperial favor nobody wanted. Pelagius I took the throne in 556 as Justinian's handpicked man — then reversed his own theological stance to match the emperor's, cementing a papacy defined by compromise and cold reception."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Pelagius served as apocrisiarius to Constantinople before his election on 16 April 556, a choice imposed by Emperor Justinian I that the Western Church met with suspicion. He had publicly opposed Justinian's campaign to condemn the "Three Chapters," a theological maneuver meant to bridge doctrinal divides, but shifted course once in office and adopted the emperor's line. The contradiction shadowed his five-year reign. He died 3 March 561, a pope who had bent where he once stood firm.