Pope Conon

Pope Conon (Greek: Κόνων, romanized: Konōn; died 21 September 687) was the bishop of Rome from 21 October 686 to his death.

He had been put forward as a compromise candidate, there being a conflict between the two factions resident in Rome — the military and the clerical.

He was educated in Sicily, where his father may have been posted during the stay of Constans II, and was later ordained a priest at Rome.

[1] Conon's age, venerable appearance, and simple character caused the clergy and soldiery of Rome, who were in disagreement, to put aside their respective candidates and to elect him as pope.

Andrew J. Ekonomou says that due to an "increasing influx" of Easterners into Rome at that time, that the Syrian, Greek, and Greco-Sicilian population together outnumbered the Latins.