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Vitalian (d. 672) Vitalian was a Campanian, elected pope in 657.
It's unclear to me why he's regarded as a saint---except for the
useful fact that he sent SS. Theodore of Tarsus and Hadrian to
England.

Perhaps because of his firm but tactful adherence to duothelite (i.e. orthodox) Christology during the monothelite controversy. And what he did for the English Church is no small matter.

Bill.




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