Pope Agapetus I
6th‑century Roman pope and canonized Catholic saint, considered a confessor of the faith · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 490 to 536 · aged 46
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Something wrong?A sixth-century pope who flew to Constantinople on a doomed diplomatic mission - failed to stop an invasion, succeeded in toppling a patriarch.
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Agapetus was born around 489 or 490, son of a Roman priest named Gordianus, possibly related to two other popes. He became bishop of Rome on 13 May 535. The following year King Theodahad of the Ostrogoths sent him to Constantinople to persuade Emperor Justinian I to abandon a planned Byzantine invasion of the Ostrogoth kingdom - the embassy failed. While there, Agapetus deposed the sitting patriarch Anthimus I and personally consecrated the replacement, Menas of Constantinople. Four letters from this period survive: two to Justinian, one to the bishops of Africa, one to the Bishop of Carthage. He died in Constantinople on 22 April 536, roughly a year into his papacy, and was later canonized in both Catholic and Orthodox traditions.
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