He is not to be confused with another Saint Agapetus, an Early Christian martyr with the feast day of 6 August.

Agapetus was born in Rome, although his exact date of birth is unknown.

* May 8 – Pope John II dies in Rome after a 2-year reign and is succeeded by Agapetus I as the 57th pope.

Agapetus ordered him to make a written profession of faith and to return to his forsaken see ; upon Anthimus ' refusal, Agapetus declined to have any relations with him.

Four of Agapetus ' letters have survived.

Pope Saint Agapetus I ( died 22 April 536 ) reigned as pope from 13 May 535 to 22 April 536.

King Theodahad of the Ostrogoths begged Agapetus to proceed on an embassy to Constantinople and use his personal influence to appease Emperor Justinian I following the death of Amalasuntha.

Agapetus I has been canonised by both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions.

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Pope Agapetus I ( 535 – 536 )

* April 22 – Pope Agapetus I dies in Constantinople after a reign of just ten months.

* April 22 – Pope Agapetus I

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The second successor of Boniface, Pope Agapetus I ( 535 – 536 ), appointed Vigilius papal representative ( apocrisiary ) at Constantinople.

Empress Theodora sought to win him as a confederate to revenge the deposition of the Monophysite Patriarch Anthimus I of Constantinople by Agapetus and also to gain aid for her efforts in behalf of the Monophysites.

Pelagius accompanied Pope Agapetus I to Constantinople and was appointed by him nuncio of the Roman Church to that city.

Cassiodorus also collaborated with Pope Agapetus I in establishing a library of Greek and Latin texts, which were intended to support a Christian school in Rome.

Pope Agapetus I consecrated him to succeed Bishop Anthimus, who was a monophysite.

He was deposed by Pope Agapetus I before March 13, 536, and later hidden by Theodora in her quarters for 12 years, until her death.

Eventually, at the instance of Pope Agapetus I, who happened to be present in Constantinople on political business, the Non-Chalcedonians Anthimus and Timotheus were deposed.

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* Henry Wace, A Dictionary of Christian Biography: " Agapetus "

The Emperor threatened Agapetus with banishment.

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The answer to their question was given by Agapetus, as John II died on 8 May 535.

Agapetus collaborated with Cassiodorus in founding at Rome a library of ecclesiastical authors in Greek and Latin and helped Cassiodorus with the project of translating the standard Greek philosophers into Latin.

To defray the costs of the embassy, Agapetus pledged the sacred vessels of the Church of Rome.

Agapetus immediately turned his attention from the political matter Theodahad had sent him to address to a religious one.

When Agapetus arrived members of the clergy entered charges against Anthimus as an intruder and a heretic.

Shortly afterwards Agapetus fell ill and died on 22 April 536, after a reign of just ten months.

Pope Agapetus II ( died November 955 ) was Pope from 10 May 946 until his death in 955, at the time when Alberic II ( 932 – 954 ), son of Marozia, was governing the independent republic of Rome under the title of " prince and senator of the Romans.

Agapetus, a man of some force of character, attempted to put a stop to the so-called Pornocracy, which lasted from the accession of Pope Sergius III in 904 to the deposition of Pope John XII in 963.

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He died in May 946 and was succeeded by Agapetus II.

William received confirmation from Pope Agapetus II and also the title of Apostolic Vicar of Germany, a title which made the archbishops of Mainz the pope's deputies in Germany and granted the archdiocese of Mainz the title of Holy See.

* December 16 – Pope John XII succeeds Pope Agapetus II as the 130th pope.