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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 370 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGATHO  ,

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pope from 678 to 681, was
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born in
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Sicily . He is noteworthy as the pope who ordered St
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Wilfrid to be restored to his bishopric at
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York in 679, and as the first to cease
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payment of the
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tribute hitherto paid on
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election to the
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emperor at
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Constantinople . It was during his pontificate that the 6th
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oecumenical
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council was held at Constantinople, to which he sent his legates and those from a
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Roman council held in 679 . Agatho died on the loth of
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January 681 .

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