VITALIANUS  ,

bishop of Rome from 657 to 672, succeeded Eugenius I. and was followed by Adeodatus . In the monothelite controversy then raging he acted with cautious reserve, refraining at least from express condemnation of the Typus of Constans II . The chief episode in his uneventful pontificate was the visit of Constans to Rome; the pope received him " almost with religious honours," a deference which he requited by stripping all the brazen ornaments of the city—even to the tiles of the Pantheon—and sending them to Constantinople . Archbishop Theodore was sent to Canterbury by Vitalian .