Pope John VI
Pope · Turkey · Religious Figures · Lived 655 to 705 · aged 50
Pope John VI is read about 81 times a day, in 74 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 Greek from Ephesus who led the Roman church at the tail end of the Byzantine Papacy, remembered less for theology than for the rare thing: a pope who moved armies and borders on the Italian Peninsula.
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About this person
Born in Ephesus in 655, John VI became bishop of Rome on 30 October 701, one of the last Greek popes in an era when Constantinople still shaped the papacy. His three-year reign stood out for military and political gains in Italy - concrete territorial and defensive wins in a period when popes rarely commanded such outcomes. He died on 11 January 705 and was buried in Old St. Peter's Basilica. After a vacancy of under two months, Pope John VII took the chair.
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