(Reigned 672-676).
Amonk of theRomancloister of St. Erasmus on the Coelian Hill. He was active in the perfection ofmonasticdiscipline and in the repression of theMonothelite heresy. Little else isknown of him. Of his correspondence only the letters for theAbbeys of St. Peter of Canterbury and St. Martin of Tours have been preserved. He is sometimes called Adeodatus II, his predecessor,Deusdedit, being occasionally known as Adeodatus I.
Liber Pont., ed. DUCHESNE, I 346-347; JAFFÉ, Reg. RR. Pont., I 237; MANSI, Coll. Conc., XI, 101.
APA citation.Shahan, T.(1907).Pope St. Adeodatus. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01142a.htm
MLA citation.Shahan, Thomas."Pope St. Adeodatus."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 1.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1907.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01142a.htm>.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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