[Vitalianus]. Bishop of Rome from 657 to 672, succeeded Eugenius I. and was followed by Adeodatus. In the monothelite controversy then raging he acted with cautious reserve, refraining at least from express condemnation of the Typus of Constans II. The chief episode in his uneventful pontificate was the visit of Constans to Rome; the pope received him almost with religious honours, a deference which he requited by stripping all the brazen ornaments of the cityeven to the tiles of the Pantheonand sending them to Constantinople. Archbishop Theodore was sent to Canterbury by Vitalian.