Pope Agatho

Born around 577, Agatho became bishop of Rome on 27 June 678, inheriting a church split over monothelitism — the question of whether Christ had one will or two. He convened the Sixth Ecumenical Council to settle it, a rare moment when East and West gathered under one theological roof. Before that, he heard the case of Wilfrid of York, a bishop shoved out of his see after Theodore of Canterbury carved up the archdiocese. Agatho died on 10 January 681, after fewer than three years in office but more than a century, allegedly, on earth. Both Catholic and Orthodox churches venerate him as a saint.