Pope Saint Agatho
Also known as
- Agathon
- Agatone
Profile
Married layman and successful businessman for most of his life. In maturity he finally followed a call to God, and with his wife’s blessing, he became a monk at Saint Hermes’ monastery in Palermo, Sicily. Vatican treasurer. Pope.
As pontiff, Agatho brought his business skills to the throne, maintaining the accounting records himself. He worked to resolve a dispute between Saint Wilfrid of York and Saint Theodore of Canterbury concerning diocesan boundaries in England; this was the first known occasion of English bishops appealing to Rome for a decision. He condemned the Monothelite heresy, and wrote definitive texts concerning the nature of Christ’s will; his writings and authority swayed the Council of Constantinople, and reunited Constantinople with Rome, though he died before the good news reaches him.
Born
Papal Ascension
Died
- 10 January 681 in Rome, Italy of natural causes
MLA Citation
- “Pope Saint Agatho“. CatholicSaints.Info. 12 November 2020. Web. 20 January 2021. <>