Pope Conon

Conon († September 21 687 in Rome) was Pope from 686 to 687

When Pope John V died in August 686, conflicts arose between the clergy and citizens' militia. Both factions could not agree on a common candidate. As the conflict escalated between the two fronts, the military party the presbyter Theodore II elected to the Pope and the clergy barred the way to the Lateran basilica, gave in the clergy and they sought a new compromise candidate.

This compromise candidate was the old priest Conon. Because he was the son of a general, and the militia for that candidate could be won and so it happened that he was elected on 21 October 686 no votes against.

The new pope showed no interest in worldly things, was simple-hearted, and constantly sick, which was likely at his old age. The " simple mind " Conon was probably the cause of a Sicilian peasant revolt. The Pope had in fact a deacon of the Church of Syracuse, a certain Constantine, made ​​administrator of the papal possessions in Sicily. Firstly, the Pope once the high clergy, against him, because he looked at the office of a Sicilian Rector as its acquis, on the other hand that Constantine proved to be inappropriate. The administrator of the Pope turned out to be exploiters of the peasants and donated a riot among the papal tenants to.

The procedure of the rector of Sicily was so outrageous that he was arrested by the governor of Sicily, and finally expelled, which was a major embarrassment for the Pope.

After elfmonatigem pontificate Conon died in Rome.