| Benedict II | |
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| Papacy began | 26 June 684 |
| Papacy ended | 8 May 685 |
| Predecessor | Leo II |
| Successor | John V |
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| Birth name | ??? |
| Born | 635 Rome, Byzantine Empire |
| Died | 8 May 685 Rome, Byzantine Empire. Location of tomb has since been lost. |
| Other Popes named Benedict | |
| Papal styles of Pope Benedict II |
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| Reference style | His Holiness |
| Spoken style | Your Holiness |
| Religious style | Holy Father |
| Posthumous style | Saint |
Pope Saint Benedict II was Pope from 684 to 685.
Pope Benedict II died on 8 May 685. He succeeded Leo II. Although chosen in 683, he was not ordained until 684 because the permission of Emperor Constantine IV was not obtained until some months after the election. According to the Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum, he obtained from the Emperor a decree which either abolished imperial confirmations altogether or made them obtainable from the Exarch of Ravenna. This gave the power of confirmations of papal nominations directly to the Church and the people of Rome. Benedict symbolically adopted Constantine's two sons Justinian and Heraclius.
To help to suppress Monothelitism, he endeavoured to secure the subscriptions of the bishops of Hispania to the decrees of the Third Council of Constantinople of 678, and to bring about the submission to the decrees of Macarius, the deposed bishop of Antioch.
Restorations of numerous churches in Rome are ascribed to the less than a year's pontificate of Benedict II.
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| Preceded by Leo II |
Pope 684–685 |
Succeeded by John V |
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