endoumentes (resident) in Constantinople sent a petition to the pope.

Agapetus arrived in Constantinople in February or March 536 on a diplomatic mission for the Ostrogothic king Theodahad. He refused to receive communion with Anthimus ostensibly on the grounds that the latter had been elected uncanonically. While this was true--he had transferred from the diocese of Trebizond--the real reason for the pope's refusal