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Vitalianus (died January 27, 672) was Pope from
657 - 672.

In the Monothelitism|Monothelite controversy then
raging he acted with cautious reserve, refraining
at least from express condemnation of the Typus of
Constans II. The chief episode in his uneventful
pontificate was the visit of Constans to Rome; the
pope received him "almost with religious honours,"
a deference which he requited by stripping all the
brazen ornaments of the city--even to the tiles of
the Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon--and sending them to
Constantinople. Archbishop Theodore of
Tarsus|Theodore was sent to Canterbury,
Kent|Canterbury by Vitalian.

Pope|
Predecessor=Pope Eugene I|Saint Eugene I|
Successor=Pope Adeodatus II|Saint Adeodatus
II|Dates=657–672

1911