Pope John V

Pope John V was pope from July 685 to 2 August 686. John V was the first pope of the Byzantine Papacy allowed to be consecrated by the Byzantine Emperor without prior consent, and the first in a line of ten consecutive popes of Eastern origin. His papacy was marked by reconciliation between the city of Rome and the empire. John was a Syrian by birth, born in the province of Antioch. On account of his knowledge of Greek, he was named papal legate to the Third Council of Constantinople in 680. John V was the first pope of the Byzantine Papacy consecrated without the direct approval of the Byzantine emperor. Constantine IV had done away with the requirement during the reign of Pope Benedict II, John V's predecessor, providing that "the one...