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Third Council of Constantinople

Date
680–681
Place
Constantinople (domed hall or “Trullo” of the imperial palace)

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What it decided

From 7 November 680 to 16 September 681. It received Pope Agatho's letter and defined that Christ has two natural wills and two natural operations, divine and human, not opposed: the human will follows and is subject to the divine. It condemned as Monothelites Sergius, Pyrrhus, Paul and Peter of Constantinople, Cyrus of Alexandria, Macarius of Antioch and Pope Honorius I.

Convoked by
Emperor Constantine IV

Who recognises it

Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. The Oriental Orthodox Churches do not accept it.