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<!-- Again, considering the brevity of The Orthodox Church on this Council, more information can be found here. --->*''During the 50 years prior In addition to the meeting condemnation of the sixth CouncilMonothelitism, Byzantium saw a sudden development in the rise of council anathematized as [[Islamheretic]]. Islam's speed was striking, starting with only Hejaz at the Prophet's death (632) Pope [[Honorius I of Rome]] and ending with Syria, Palestine and Egypt within the 50 years. Islam was at the walls [[Sergius I of Constantinople after this time]], and almost captured the city. Within a hundred yearsas well as [[Cyrus of Alexandria]], Islam had taken North Africa, went through Spain and "forced western Europe to fight for its life at the Battle [[Paul II of Poitiers." The old Empires were in no position to resist the conquests of Islam. Byzantium lost her eastern possessions Constantinople|Paul II]] and the [[PatriarchatePeter of Constantinople]]s of Jerusalem, Antioch and AlexandriaTheodore of Pharan for their part in propagating the heresy of Monothelitism. Constantinople was now without rival, but was never free from Muslim attacks. It held out only eight centuries more, and then succumbed to invasion. Christendom did survive, but only with difficulty.''
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By this point, [[Arianism]] had become largely marginalized and many Arians were accepted back into the Church. But a new attack on the Person of [[Christ]] emerged in the form of the Monothelites. The Monothelites argued that Christ has only one will, for He is one person albeit with two natures. The Council felt that this "impaired the fullness of Christ's humanity," and that human nature without human will would be incomplete. That affirmed that since Christ was true man and true God, He must have two wills: a human will and a divine will. [[Monothelitism]] was condemned as heresy.
==Commemoration ==
The '''Holy Fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical Council''' are commemorated on [[January 23]] and also on the 9th Sunday after [[Pentecost]] the [[Sunday of the Fathers of the First Six Councils]].
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