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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 Theodore I. in
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June or
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July 649 . He had previously acted as papal apocrisiarius at Constantinople, and was held in high repute for learning and virtue . Almost his first official act was to summon a synod (the first Lateran) for dealing with the Monothelite
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heresy . It met in the Lateran church, was attended by one
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hundred and five bishops (chiefly from Italy, Sicily and Sardinia, a few being from Africa and other quarters), held five sessions or " secretarii " from the 5th to the 31st of
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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 patriarch
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Sergius for which the emperor Heraclius had stood sponsor, but also the Typus of Paul, the successor of Sergius, which had the support of the reigning emperor (Constans II.) . Martin published the decrees of his Lateran synod in an encyclical, and Constans replied by enjoining his exarch to seize the pope and send him prisoner to Constantinople . Martin was arrested in the Lateran (June 15, 6S3), hurried out of Rome, and conveyed first to
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Naxos and subsequently to Constantinople (
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Sept . 17, 654) . He was ultimately banished to Cherson, where he arrived on the 26th of March 655, and died on the 16th of September following . His successor was
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Eugenius I . (L . D.*) A full account of the events of his pontificate will be found in Hefele's Conciliengeschichte, vol. iii .

(1877) .

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