April 681 A.D. Agatho Dies—Rome’s 79th; Palermo-Born Benedictine; (England) Restored Wilifrid to York after Theodore of Canterbury, the 7th ABC, Deposed Him; 6th Ecumenical Council Ending Monothelitism
April 681 A.D. Agatho Dies—Rome’s 79 th ; Palermo-Born Benedictine; (England) Restored Wilifrid to York after Theodore of Canterbury, the 7 th ABC, Deposed Him; 6 th Ecumenical Council Ending Monothelitism Ott, Michael. "Pope St. Agatho." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01204c.htm . Accessed 15 Jul 2014. Agatho Born towards the end of the sixth century in Sicily ; died in Rome , 681. It is generally believed that Agatho was originally a Benedictine monk at St. Hermes in Palermo , and there is good authority that he was more than 100 years old when, in 678, he ascended the papal chair as successor to Pope Donus . Shortly after Agatho becamePope, St. Wilfred, Archbishop of York , who had been unjustly ...