Martin the Confessor Pope of Rome

Also known as Martin I · Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome

Pope of Rome who convened the Lateran Council of 649 and condemned the Monothelite heresy, rejecting the imperial Ecthesis and Typos. Arrested by order of the emperor, he was tried and exiled to Cherson, where he died in 655 a confessor for the Orthodox faith.

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Notes

Byzantine-rite feast is principally Apr 14; the Apr 13 commemoration is listed in the OCA/Western reckoning. The last Pope of Rome venerated as a confessor for the faith.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints; en.wikipedia.org