Pope Martin I
7th‑century pope and martyr, bishop of Rome (649-655), exiled for opposing Monothelitism, venerated as a saint in Catholic and Orthodox Churches · Italy · Politicians · Lived 598 to 655 · aged 57
Pope Martin I is read about 153 times a day, in 72 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?The only pope to be exiled and martyred for a theological stance, arrested by the Byzantine emperor for refusing to bend on the question of whether Christ had one will or two.
Also in Deutsch
Photos 3
%2C_el_papa_Mart%C3%AD_I%2C_de_Carlo_Laurenti.jpg?width=1200)
About this person
Elected bishop of Rome on 21 July 649 without waiting for Constantinople's approval - the sole pope of that era to bypass imperial mandate - Martin had previously served as Pope Theodore I's ambassador to the eastern capital. His defiance centered on Monothelitism, a doctrine he opposed so fiercely that Emperor Constans II had him seized, dragged to Constantinople, then banished to Cherson on the Black Sea. He died there on 16 September 655, somewhere between his mid-fifties and mid-sixties. Both the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy count him as a saint, and he remains the last pope the Church calls a martyr.
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.