SISINNIUS, POPE. — A Syrian by birth, he succeeded on 15 January 708, after nearly three months of vacancy, to JOHN VII (d. 18 October 707).
With the aim of ensuring the safety of the inhabitants of Rome against possible incursions by the Lombards or Saracens, he ordered that the kilns for baking the bricks needed for repairing the walls be reactivated, but his order remained unfulfilled owing to his sudden death, which befell him following an attack of gout on 4 February following. He was buried in St Peter’s.
BIBL.: Lib. Pont., I, p. 388.