680–81, when Constantinople hosted yet another major council of the Church (reckoned as the sixth held there). It finally reaffirmed the imperial Church’s commitment to the decisions of Chalcedon against any attempt to placate Miaphysites in the empire, ending the so-called ‘Monothelete’ controversy (see pp. 441–2). Roman representatives joined Eastern bishops in condemning as heretical four Patriarchs of Constantinople and, more reluctantly, one former Roman pope, Honorius; his name was discreetly inserted in the middle of the list of patriarchs to minimize Roman embarrassment.
