Editing Monothelitism (section)

==Condemnation==
{{See also|Third Council of Constantinople}}
[[File:Constantine IV.jpeg|left|thumb|Emperor Constantine IV, who convened the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 678]]
After Constans's death in 668, the throne passed to his son [[Constantine IV]]. [[Pope Vitalian]] (657–672), who had hosted the visit of Constans II to Rome in 663, almost immediately declared himself for the doctrine of the two wills of Christ. In response, Patriarch [[Theodore I of Constantinople]] and Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch, both pressed Constantine to take some measures against the pope. Constantine, however, decided to let the monothelite question be decided entirely by a church council.{{sfn|Bury|1889|p=314}}

He asked if the pope (now [[Pope Agatho]], 678–681) would be willing to send delegates to an ecumenical council to be held at Constantinople so that the question could be firmly ended. Pope Agatho agreed but first held a preliminary synod at Rome 680 to obtain the opinion of the western theologians. Other synods were also held at [[Milan]] and at the [[Council of Hatfield]] in 680, convoked by Archbishop [[Theodore of Tarsus|Theodore of Canterbury]].<ref>{{harvnb|Bury|1889|p=315}}: see {{harvnb|Bede|1969|loc=Book IV, Chapter XVII (XV), pp. 384–387. [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/bede-book4.html Council of Hæthfeld]}}</ref> All of the western synods condemned monothelitism, and a report of the Roman synod's acts was sent to Constantinople, along with the western delegates to the council.

The council met from 680 to 681. Apart from the Roman representatives, it also hosted representatives from the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Jerusalem, and the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Antioch were present in person. With the exception of two individuals, it condemned the monothelite doctrine as one that diminished the fullness of Christ's humanity and asserted [[dyothelitism]] to be the true doctrine, with Christ possessing "two natural wills and two natural energies, without division, alteration, separation or confusion".{{sfn|Bury|1889|p=317}} It also anathematised the chief representatives of the discredited doctrine, including Pope Honorius. The churches condemned at Constantinople included the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the [[Maronite]] Church{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}, but the Oriental Orthodox have denied that they ever held the monothelite view and describe their own Christology as [[Miaphysite]], and the Maronites accept the Chalcedonian formula{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} since they are in communion with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. That brought to an end the controversy over monothelitism.