The Byzantine Papacy was a period of Byzantine domination of the Roman Papacy from 537 to 752, when popes required the approval of the Byzantine Emperor for their episcopal consecration, and many pope
The Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, consecrated in 547, combines Western and Byzantine elements.
The Column of Phocas, the only extant public monument erected in seventh-century Rome by the Byzantines
Pope Martin I was abducted by Constans II and died in exile.
Pope Zachary was the last pope of Greek extraction and the last to seek imperial confirmation of his election.
Pope Zachary was the bishop of Rome from 3 or 5 December 741 until his death on 15 March 752. He was the last pope of the Byzantine Papacy. Zachary built the original church of Santa Maria sopra Miner
Byzantine Papacy
…from Rome: for example, Pope Gregory II came to the aid of the exarchate of Ravenna in 729 by helping to crush the rebellion of Tiberius Petasius, and Pope Zacharias in 743 and 749 negotiated the withdrawal of the Lombards from imperial territory. Popes of the first half of the eighth century perceived Constantinople…
Contemporary Byzantine fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua