CONON, Pope. - When John V died in August 686, the Romans found themselves divided over the election of his successor: the clergy wanted the archpriest Peter, while the military class, assembled at St. Stephen's on the Caelian, supported the priest Theodore. Only after lengthy negotiations did the two parties agree on the elderly priest C., who was consecrated on October 21, 686, with the approval of the exarch of Ravenna. The new Pope received from Constantinople a letter dated February 17, 687, in which the emperor Justinian II announced that he had convened an assembly of bishops and laymen, before which the acts of the Sixth Ecumenical Council had been read and were then sealed by those present to prevent any falsification of them. C. appointed the deacon Constantine of Syracuse administrator of the patrimony of the Holy See in Sicily, a choice that aroused deep resentment among the Roman clergy. He died on September 21, 687, after a pontificate of eleven months.

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BIBL.: Lib. pont., I, p. 368; O. Bertolini, Roma di fronte a Bisanzio e ai Longobardi, Bologna 1941, p. 397 ff.

Pietro Goggi

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