POPE SAINT ADEODATUS
77TH Pope (672-676)
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A monk of the Roman cloister
of St. Erasmus on the Coelian Hill. He was active in the perfection of
monastic discipline and in the repression of the Monothelite heresy, Little
else is known of him. Of his correspondence only the letters for the Abbeys of
St. Peter of Canterbury and St. Martin of Tours have been preserved. He is
sometimes called Adeodatus II, his predecessor, Deusdedit, being occasionally
known as Adeodatus I.
Liber Pont., ed. DUCHESNE, I
346-347; JAFF , Reg. RR. Pont., I 237; MANSI, Coll. Conc., XI, 101.
THOMAS J. SHAHAN
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