During his pontificate, St. Martin I faced the controversy of monothelitism, a heresy claiming that Christ had only one will rather than two distinct wills, one human and one divine. He condemned it at the Lateran Council of 649, and he also condemned an edict issued by the Byzantine emperor Constans II Pogonatus that forbade discussion of Christ’s wills. Constans, who had not approved Martin’s election, ordered the pope’s arrest in 653.
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