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MARTIN I

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARTIN I  . succeeded See also:Theodore I. in See also:June or See also:July 649 . He had previously acted as papal apocrisiarius at See also:Constantinople, and was held in high repute for learning and virtue . Almost his first See also:official See also:act was to summon a See also:synod (the first Lateran) for dealing with the Monothelite See also:heresy . It met in the Lateran See also:church, was attended by one See also:hundred and five bishops (chiefly from See also:Italy, See also:Sicily and See also:Sardinia, a few being from See also:Africa and other quarters), held five sessions or " secretarii " from the 5th to the 31st of See also:October 649, and in twenty canons condemned the Monothelite heresy, its authors, and the writings by which it had been promulgated . In this condemnation were included, not only the Ecthesis or exposition of faith of the See also:patriarch See also:Sergius for which the See also:emperor See also:Heraclius had stood See also:sponsor, but also the Typus of See also:Paul, the successor of Sergius, which had the support of the reigning emperor (See also:Constans II.) . See also:Martin published the decrees of his Lateran synod in an encyclical, and Constans replied by enjoining his See also:exarch to seize the See also:pope and send him prisoner to Constantinople . Martin was arrested in the Lateran (June 15, 6S3), hurried out of See also:Rome, and conveyed first to See also:Naxos and subsequently to Constantinople (See also:Sept . 17, 654) . He was ultimately banished to Cherson, where he arrived on the 26th of See also:March 655, and died on the 16th of See also:September following . His successor was See also:Eugenius I . (L . D.*) A full See also:account of the events of his pontificate will be found in See also:Hefele's Conciliengeschichte, vol. iii .

(1877) .

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