predecessor, Sergius I, had declared that he would rather die than subscribe to the council.

Visit to Constantinople

In 710, Emperor Justinian II demanded in a iussio that Pope Constantine appear before him in Constantinople. The imperial mandate made it "obvious that the relentless emperor meant to settle once and for all the issue of Rome's acceptance of the Trullan decrees". Unlike his predecessors, Constantine neither delayed nor made excuses to avoid

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