But whilst the emperors resided in Constantinople, this condition produced often long delays and considerable inconveniences.
Benedict symbolically adopted Constantine's sons, Justinian II and Heraclius.
[1] To help to suppress Monothelitism, Benedict endeavoured to secure the subscriptions of the bishops of Hispania to the decrees of the Third Council of Constantinople of 680/1, and to bring about the submission to the decrees of Macarius, the deposed bishop of Antioch.
[1] Restorations of numerous churches in Rome are ascribed to the less than a year's pontificate of Benedict II, including Old St. Peter's Basilica and San Lorenzo in Lucina.
[3] After a pontificate of about eleven months, Pope Benedict II died on May 8, 685 and was buried in St.