The sixth ecumenical council condemns Monothelitism and confesses two wills in Christ, vindicating Maximus the Confessor a generation after his death.
Tagged: Councils Catholic Christian Eastern Orthodox
The Event
- Date
- 680–681 (exact)
- Also called
- Constantinople III
- Era
- Patristic; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Constantinople; today Istanbul, Turkey
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Catholic, Eastern Orthodox
- Key figures
- Maximus the Confessor (posthumously), Constantine IV
Connections
- Second Council of Constantinople; followed
Doctrines in Play
Primary Sources
- Maximus the Confessor, Disputation with Pyrrhus
- Acts of the Sixth Ecumenical Council
Secondary Sources
- Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, vols. 1–5 (Chicago, 1971–1989)
Provenance: HIST-0020; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-26.
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