Birthplace
Syria
Pope from
25 March 708
Pope until
9 April 715
Died
9 April 715
Who he was
Constantine was a Syrian, the son of John, remembered as a remarkably friendly man. The first half of his reign saw a cruel famine in Rome, the second a great abundance.
What he is remembered for
In 709-711 he travelled to Constantinople at the summons of the Emperor Justinian II, who received him with great honour and renewed the privileges of the Roman Church; he seems to have given qualified approval to the Council in Trullo. When a later emperor tried to revive Monothelitism, Constantine and the Romans refused to recognise him. He received the English kings Coenred of Mercia and Offa of the East Saxons, who became monks in Rome.
Sources
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