As a result of the dispute, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian II ordered Sergius I's abduction ( as his predecessor Constans II had done with Pope Martin I ), but with the assistance of the exarch of Ravenna, Sergius I was able to avoid trial in Constantinople.

The exarch arrived, demanded the gold, and looted Old St. Peter's Basilica, but departed after Sergius I's consecration.

Eventually, Justinian II ordered Sergius I's arrest and abduction to Constantinople by his notoriously violent bodyguard protospatharios Zacharias.

The exarch arrived, demanded the gold, and looted Old St. Peter's Basilica, but departed after Sergius I's consecration ( 15 December 687 ).

The exarch arrived, demanded the gold, and looted Old St. Peter's Basilica, but departed after Sergius I's consecration ( 15 December 687 ).

That both men were murdered during Sergius ’ pontificate appears probable, although other accounts state that Christopher at least was allowed to retire to a monastery ; however, given where the real power lay, it seems more likely that either Theophylact gave the orders directly, or that he directed Sergius to give the orders.

Others, however, claimed that the Pope resisted his power ; there is some evidence that Sergius IV gave political backing to an anti-Crescentius faction in the city.

Before his death, however, Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople had drawn up the Ecthesis in response to the orthodox synodical letter of Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and on learning of the death of Pope Honorius had convinced the Emperor to issue this document as an imperial edict in December 638, thus valid across the entire empire.

His fame reached Italy, and at the request of Pope Sergius I he paid a visit to Rome, of which, however, there is no notice in his extant writings.

Most of its immigrant population is now gone ; however, St. Sergius Chapel, designed by Nicholas Roerich and built in 1932-1933, remains.

At Sergius's refusal, Justinian dispatched a military delegation to Rome to induce Sergius to sign ; the imperial army at Ravenna, however, composed mainly of native Italians, rallied to support the Roman Pontiff, marching on Rome.

At Sergius's refusal, Justinian dispatched a military delegation to Rome to induce Sergius to sign ; the imperial army at Ravenna, however, composed mainly of native Italians, rallied to support the Roman Pontiff, marching on Rome.

Ironically, the first new film released in Soviet Russia did not exactly fit this mold: this was Father Sergius, a religious film completed during the last weeks of the Russian Empire but not yet exhibited.

Sergius I did not attend the Quinisext Council of 692, but sent legates ( including his apocrisiarius and suffragan Basil, the Bishop of Gortyna in Crete ), who ended up subscribing to the canons as " holding the place of the entire synod of the Holy Roman Church ".

However, the Quinisext Council did approve all eighty-five of the Apostolic Canons, while Sergius I would only have supported the first fifty.

Rather than seizing upon the anti-Byzantine sentiment, Sergius I did his best to quell the uprising.

The Church and the Emperor reached an accommodation, with Louis being crowned king of Lombardy by Sergius, although the Pope did not accede to all the demands made upon him.

With regards to the imperial question, although both Sergius and Theophylact did not support the continued nominal rule of Emperor Louis, they were somewhat unwilling to grant the imperial title to the only other contender, Berengar I of Italy.

Although Honorius himself agreed with Sergius ' formula, he did not define it as dogma using his papal authority ( ex cathedra ).

The Council's letter of confirmation clearly states: " We anathematize the inventors of the new error, that is, Theodore, Sergius, ... and also Honorius, who did not attempt to sanctify this Apostolic Church with the teaching of Apostolic tradition, but by profane treachery permitted its purity to be polluted.

As an ascetic, Sergius did not take part in the political life of the country.

There were those who did not believe that the Moscow Patriarchate was yet free from the control of the KGB, and that in any case they had not sufficiently renounced the policies of Metropolitan Sergius.

He concludes that " the martyrs Sergius and Bacchus did not exist as such ".

Sergius protested, saying he had made no such agreement ; when John did not give up his demands, he took the holy vessels of St. Peter's Basilica, claiming they were all he possessed.

A Roman nobleman, Lucian, is sometimes recognized as his father, although other sources assert that he was the illegitimate son of his predecessor Pope Sergius III ( 904 – 911 ).

John VII's predecessor, Pope Sergius I had declared that he would rather die than subscribe to the council.

For recent events the Chronicle, like his Ecclesiastical History, relied upon Gildas, upon a version of the Liber pontificalis current at least to the papacy of Pope Sergius I ( 687 – 701 ), and other sources.

At the Sixth Ecumenical Council Pope Honorius and Patriarch Sergius were declared heretics.

* 1012 – Pope Sergius IV

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.

Furthermore, the Acts of the Thirteenth Session of the Council state, " And with these we define that there shall be expelled from the holy Church of God and anathematized Honorius who was some time Pope of Old Rome, because of what we found written by him to Sergius, that in all respects he followed his view and confirmed his impious doctrines.

As a young man, he was placed into the papal court, and was made a subdeacon and sacellarius ( or treasurer ) of the Roman See during the pontificate of Pope Sergius I ( 687 – 701 ).

He was succeeded by Pope Sergius II.

The Lombard king, shutting Stephen up in his suites in the Basilica, made it clear to the Pope that the price for his help was to be the handing over of Christophorus and Sergius.

The Pope sent two bishops to negotiate with Christophorus and Sergius, telling them that they must either retire to a monastery or come out to him at St. Peter ’ s.

In an attempt to forestall the potential intervention of Charlemagne, Desiderius had Stephen write a letter to the Frankish king wherein he declared that Christophorus and Sergius had been involved in a plot with an envoy of Charlemagne ’ s brother, Carloman, to kill the Pope.

Pope Saint Sergius I ( c. 650 – 8 September 701 ) was pope from 687 to 701.

Sergius left Sicily and arrived in Rome during the pontificate of Pope Adeodatus II .. Pope Leo II, ordained him cardinal-priest of Santa Susanna on 27 June 683, and he rose through the ranks of the clergy.

Sergius I owed his election as Pope Conon's successor to skillful intrigues against Antipope Paschal and Antipope Theodore, the other candidates.

Pope Sergius II was Pope from January 844 – 24 January 847.

Sergius died while negotiating between two patriarchs and was succeeded by Pope Leo IV.

Pope Sergius was portrayed by John Goodman in the 2009 film, Pope Joan.