Pope Agatho
Pope · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 574 to 681 · aged 107
Pope Agatho is read about 135 times a day, in 71 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 27 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A seventh-century pope who may have outlived every successor - he reportedly reached over a hundred - Agatho steered Rome through a fractious theological crisis and an archbishop's messy appeal, all while the Eastern and Western churches still spoke to each other.
Photos 7
_-_cropped.jpg?width=1200)
.jpg?width=1200)
_near_Cattedrale_di_Vergine_Assunta.png?width=1200)
About this person
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.
Religious Figures from Italy 6
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.