Saint Vitalian

Saint Vitalian (born, Segni, Duchy of Rome—died c. Jan. 27, 672, Rome; feast day January 27) was the pope from 657 to 672. Consecrated as St. Eugenius I’s successor on July 30, 657, Vitalian soon dealt peacefully with monothelitism, a heresy maintaining that Christ had only one will. In 648 the Byzantine emperor Constans II had issued his Typos, an edict forbidding discussion of the monothelite question and attempting to impose unity on the church....